Pictured is a 19th century carved wooden figure of a pangolin on display in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. Nearly extinct, the pangolin is better known as a scaly anteater, as indicated by the long snout and textured surface of this carving by the the Melanau people in Sarawak, Malaysia. Pangolin skins were once eaten as a delicacy as well as used to cover war helmets and jackets.