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. They say gorging on ...

Together with its black-and-white fur, slothful behavior and cuddly demeanor, bamboo is a defining feature of the critically-endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). A single panda can consume ...

Red pandas are the puppies of the bear world. These endangered non-aggressive bears are protected in Myanmar, China, Bhutan, Nepal, and India. The species is also protected, researched, and bred 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-loving ...

Are Giant pandas closer to bears or raccoons? It turns out that based on their eating habits, they share qualities of both. Perhaps pandas are not the vegetarians they seem to be. Who doesn’t love a ...

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in a tree. Wolong Panda Reserve, Sichuan Province, China. (World Wildlife Organization) (CN) — The giant panda has an enlarged wrist bone that acts as a sixth ...

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a ...