The diminutive red panda is now the star of its own film. But what does it have in common with its bigger namesake—and are either of them related to bears? Here we delve into one of the most ...

Two tiny brothers are tucked away in a nest box at Zoo Knoxville, and their arrival carries far more weight than their small ...

China's panda diplomacy may have one true winner: the pandas themselves. Decades after Beijing began working with zoos in the U.S. and Europe to protect the species, the number of giant pandas in the ...

A giant panda just gave birth at a Chinese conservation center, and the tiny cub's future is already drawing attention from scientists and panda lovers worldwide. What this birth means for one of the ...

Red pandas and raccoons share physical traits but have distinct evolutionary paths. Red pandas inhabit Asian mountain forests ...

Their numbers are dwindling, and these real-life teddy bears need our help. What’s black and white and not all over? The answer, unfortunately, is the giant panda. While conservation efforts are ...

There is nothing intrinsic to pandas that makes them bad at breeding. It is true that they only have one menstrual cycle each year, but this is true of many creatures. Animals that have multiple ...

Red pandas are listed as "endangered" by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. The post Tiny endangered red ...

It could be the photo that’s so cute it breaks the Internet: 14 baby pandas cuddling in a giant crib.An adorable series of images of more than a dozen artificially bred panda cubs was released Monday ...

Beth Py-Lieberman | Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections The National Zoo's female panda Mei Xiang (above in 2019) is exhibiting signs of a ...