Singapore has seized over 830 kilograms of Asian pangolin scales hidden in a shipment bound for Cambodia, authorities said Saturday, calling it the largest haul of its kind discovered in the city-state. This undated handout received on March 28, 2026 from Singapore’s National Parks Board and Immigration and Checkpoints Authority shows pangolin scales being examined … Read more
Researchers Race Against Time: Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Critically Endangered Pangolins Two critically endangered pangolin species, the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) and the Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica), are one step closer to receiving vital conservation aid thanks to groundbreaking genomic research. Scientists from the Guangdong Academy of Forestry and Northeast Forestry University have assembled … Read more
Researchers from Guangdong Academy of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University and their colleagues have assembled chromosome-scale genomes for two critically endangered pangolin species: the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) and the Malayan pangolin (Manis javanica). The distribution area and sampling sites of the Chinese and Malayan pangolins. Image credit: Lan et al., doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giaf003. The pangolin is … Read more