While studying fossils of an ancient panda relative at the Hammerschmiede site in Allgäu, Germany, researchers discovered that these early bears had a much more diverse diet than their bamboo-loving ...

The Hammerschmiede fossil site in southern Germany has yielded finds from about 11.5 million years ago that have rewritten evolutionary history. The sole species of bear discovered to date at the site ...

Learn more about how miRNA may have regulated the gene expression in pandas, helping them adapt to eating more plants.

Giant pandas have digestive systems that are typical for carnivores. Yet, bamboo is their main source of food. They have evolved several features, for example pseudo thumbs to grasp bamboo and flat ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Take a look behind the scenes as animal care teams provide a daily bamboo buffet to the Zoo’s new giant pandas. Mike Bock Giant panda Qing Bao eats bamboo in the outdoor yard of the David M.

No animals come close to these cuteness standards. Though sharing the word "panda" in their names, they have a remarkably distinct look and behavior in nature and biology. The giant panda, an icon for ...

SAN DIEGO — Two giant pandas made their public debut Thursday at the San Diego Zoo. Yun Chuan and Xin Bao arrived at the San Diego Zoo earlier this summer and are the first giant pandas to enter the U ...

There are fewer than 2,000 Giant Pandas remaining in the wild so the announcement that China will be sending giant Pandas to live at the San Francisco Zoo is fantastic news for the future of this ...