Zhuhai border police recently uncovered a smuggling ring that was attempting to transport 956 frozen pangolins, weighing four tons, in Guangdong. Pangolins, for those who aren't up to speed on their nocturnal ant-eater relatives, are like large, scale-covered sloths whose armor is thought to cure cancer and asthma as part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (Spoiler alert, it definitely doesn't.)


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