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.

“MiRNA in bamboo is also involved in the regulation ... China has drastically scaled up efforts to save the bears over the past decades, boosting the number of panda reserves from 12 to 67.

No wonder they poop around 40 times a day! Their diet is 99 per cent bamboo, and they eat different parts of the bamboo to get different nutrients. If they are lacking in certain minerals in ...

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 ...