Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based ...

Red pandas are the puppies of the bear world. These endangered non-aggressive bears are protected in Myanmar, China, Bhutan, ...

The panda dogs are not the first time a fake animal controversy happened at a zoo in China. In July, the Hangzhou Zoo in Zhejiang faced rumors that some of its bears were human imposters.

China has long been sending the rare members of the bear family to nations overseas as a goodwill gesture meant to build ties in a practice dubbed “panda diplomacy”. In 1972, Beijing ...

China has drastically scaled up efforts to save the bears over the past decades, boosting the number of panda reserves from 12 to 67.

A new study suggests that microRNA from plants can enter the bloodstream of bears and facilitate adaptation to a herbivorous ...

WASHINGTON--China’s panda diplomacy may have one true winner ... “They have very high hereditary values. If they bear offspring, the cubs also will have very high hereditary values ...

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

The first giant panda cubs born in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region make their public debut on Sunday at Ocean Park Hong Kong, drawing hundreds of Chinese and foreign visitors to the ...