KARL SHUKER on how contraband scales revealed a new species, plus a mermaid mystery
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Known alternatively as scaly anteaters for obvious physical reasons, these animated pine cones are among the world’s most distinctive – but also, tragically – most endangered mammals, due to over-hunting by poachers for their meat as well as for their scales, the latter being illegally used in traditional medicine within their African and Asian distribution. Consequently, it is both surprising and
