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To: Tax-chick
The Wiki article says that pangolins are mammals. The keratin armor plating might not fit so well on plesiosaurs.

The article also says that pangolins are the most heavily trafficked animal in the world. I would have thought that was opossums.

4,015 posted on 04/26/2015 4:07:11 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I could win the Lottery! It only slightly skews the odds against me somewhat that I don't play.)
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To: NicknamedBob
Heh, I got that.

... populations have suffered from illegal trafficking due to unfounded beliefs in Asia that their ground-up scales can stimulate lactation or cure cancer or asthma.

4,016 posted on 04/26/2015 4:20:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Here, have some germs.)
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