The pictures were taken during the 3-week-old baby’s first neonatal exam. The little panda tips the scales at 634.8 grams—just under 1.5 pounds! A full-grown giant panda weights up to 250 pounds, ...

When a panda baby is born, it looks more like a naked mole-rat (minus the teeth) than an adult panda. It’s hairless, as small as a stick of butter and lacks the distinctive black-and-white coloring of ...

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 ...

For scientists to bring giant pandas back from the edge of extinction, they first had to figure out how to keep the tiniest pandas alive. "What we found—that it takes a lot of work to raise a baby ...

The baby giant panda at Smithsonian’s National Zoo continued its plan to be the only good thing that happened in 2020 by turning one month old Monday. What kind of mischief does a one-month-old baby ...

Giant panda babies are born weirdly tiny and underdeveloped. No one knows why, and the major theory just turned out to be wrong. Carnivorans — an order of mammals that includes all bears, dogs, cats, ...

A group of baby pandas made their public debut at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China, on Thursday. The 23 giant panda cubs born in 2016 at the Chengdu Research Base of ...

For scientists to bring giant pandas back from the edge of extinction, they first had to figure out how to keep the tiniest pandas alive. "What we found—that it takes a lot of work to raise a baby ...