{"id":2297,"date":"2026-07-25T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/190-year-old-museum-specimen-solves-a-pangolin-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:20:02","slug":"190-year-old-museum-specimen-solves-a-pangolin-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/190-year-old-museum-specimen-solves-a-pangolin-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"190-Year-Old Museum Specimen Solves a Pangolin Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/190-year-old-museum-specimen-solves-a-pangolin-mystery\/\" title=\"190-Year-Old Museum Specimen Solves a Pangolin Mystery\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Manis-Aurita-a-Species-of-Pangolin-777x491.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manis Aurita a Species of Pangolin\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly 190 years ago held genetic evidence that could change how conservationists track one of the world\u2019s most heavily trafficked mammals. Pangolins are medium-sized mammals found only in Africa and Asia. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New DNA analysis and a reconstructed family tree could help protect it from poaching. On a museum shelf in London, a pangolin specimen collected nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}