When it's frightened, it actually curls up into a roly-poly ball. The pangolin could go extinct before most people realize it exists. Or, more to the point: It could go extinct because of that.

Pangolins could go extinct before most people even know they exist. Image taken by Maria Diekmann. Pangolins are in crisis, with all eight species threatened with extinction. This means that an ...

A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ants or termites at a rehabilitation center in Zimbabwe. He was rescued from illegal wildlife traders, who likely would have ...

Millions of pangolins are being hunted and killed in Africa, raising fears that they are being pushed to extinction. The pangolin is the world's most trafficked and poached mammal, because of the ...

The giant ground pangolin is considered an endangered species. Experts thought it became extinct in Kenya in 1971. But ...

The reason for this species becoming almost extinct is due to the fact that pangolin’s meat has been a delicacy for the ...

The creature is near extinct in Nigeria, so pangolins smuggled from there are likely to be from other countries, UNODC said. Asia is home to the other four species, although they have been totally ...