Scientists studied pangolin DNA from seven countries and rediscovered Himalayan species that had been ignored since 1836
Specimen at the Goldsmiths Museum. Photo credit: Narayan Koju. In 1836, a young British diplomat and naturalist named Brian Houghton Hodgson was stranded in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, far from the great museums of Europe but close to the forests and hills where many strange and unseen animals still lived. One day, he encountered … Read more