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 ...

The animal was euthanized in Hong Kong on Thursday because of his deteriorating health, a statement said. By Jin Yu Young An An, a bamboo-eating resident of Hong Kong’s Ocean Park who was known for ...

"He had an easy-going personality and was a favorite of all who met and worked with him over the years,” the Memphis Zoo said in a statement Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

In the late 1980s, paleontologist Nikolai Spassov stumbled upon fossilized animal teeth in the National Museum of Natural History in Bulgaria. The fossil had a handwritten note with an indecipherable ...

Fans of giant pandas now have a way to watch the antics of Yun Chuan and Xin Bao at the San Diego Zoo from anywhere in the world, thanks to Tuesday’s launch of the Panda Cam. Before getting to the ...