The pangolin or scaly ant-eater (Manis penta-dactyla dalmanni) is the most primitive of Chinese mammals, and although it is fully protected by law in the colony and island of Hong-Kong ...

"If we lose the pangolin, we would be losing 80 million years of evolution - they are the only mammals with scales and they existed when dinosaurs were still on the planet," the 29-year-old said.