Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, 189 years after first described

Mongabay
Jul 6, 2026, 9:16 pm126 ptsTrending
KATHMANDU — The animal Brian Houghton Hodgson saw looked almost like a pangolin, but it didn’t tick all the boxes. It had amor-like scales from head to tail, just as the French zoologist Georges Cuvier had earlier described. But it also had ears and far more scales across its trunk than any recorded…

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