What’s black and white and full of birthday cake? The National Zoo’s Bao Li, who celebrated his fourth birthday Monday in D.C. with dozens of adoring fans watching. The crowd gave muffled gasps, ...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- When Mei Xiang went in for an ultrasound on Friday, her results were shared around the world. The 22-year-old giant panda could deliver a cub in the next few days, the Smithsonian's ...

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WASHINGTON -- The baby giant panda at Washington's National Zoo was very talkative during the little cub's very first veterinary exam, two days before turning a month old. The Smithsonian, which runs ...

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WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — National Zoo’s giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, arrived from China on Oct. 15 with a huge amount of fanfare. The arrival brought an end to a void that lasted nearly a year ...

WASHINGTON -- Giant panda Mei Xiang gave birth Friday to a wiggling cub and immediately began cuddling her offspring, Washington's National Zoo said. The cub was born at 6:35 p.m. Eastern Time, the ...

National Zoo officials said Monday that preliminary necropsy results from the zoo's recently deceased panda cub show that the cub had fluid in its abdomen and some discoloration in the liver, NBC 4 ...

Update 2:22 p.m. After Rusty's the red panda's wild journey through the streets of DC, the National Zoo has confirmed that he has indeed been taken in to custody and is headed back to his home. Red ...

Bei Bei was born in Washington, D.C., but is on loan from China. The Smithsonian National Zoo’s giant panda, Bei Bei, turned four-years-old on Thursday and he almost seemed to be smiling. Broadcast ...