High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,500 of these ...

A red panda totters along the branch of an evergreen tree, placing one paw in front of the other like a gymnast on a balance beam. But then ... whoops! The panda loses its footing. A fall from this ...

Giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji experiences snow for the first time just beyond his indoor exhibit on Sunday. Though he did not venture further, his parents Mei Xiang and Tian Tian played around outside.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The giant panda, or panda bear, is known for its distinct black-and-white body and propensity of eating bamboo by the bunch. The ...

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Let’s see a show of hands, Pandas: how many of you love animals? Uh-huh, it’s just as we suspected—a whopping 159% of you are ...

Early last week Su Lin, first captive giant panda ever brought to the U. S., added oak twigs to her diet in Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo. Unaccustomed to such rugged fodder, Su Lin caught a twig in her ...

Poor pandas. While the iconic bear species of China is no longer endangered, discussions about their reproductive challenges ...

Several inches of snowfall kept the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute closed to visitors this week. But the animals and their caretakers still had a good time! Mike Bock ...

The discovery of an extinct panda that roamed the forests and swamps of Europe millions of years ago could reignite debate about whether the ancestors of China’s iconic national animal actually came ...