Despite having digestive systems typical of carnivores, their diet consists almost entirely of bamboo. The post Why giant ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based ...

Tiny scraps of genetic material from bamboo might influence the genes of pandas, helping them adapt to a mostly bamboo diet.

Giant panda twin cubs make their debut appearance before the media at Hong Kong's Ocean Park on Feb 15. CHAN LONG HEI/AP .

Even though they're in the animal kingdom's order of Carnivora – carnivorous species – Giant pandas spend up to 16 hours a ...

Bamboo is the main source of food for giant pandas, who have gastrointestinal tracts of carnivores. Now, researchers set out to better understand why pandas can live off bamboo. They found that tiny ...

Since the arrival of the first pair of giant pandas, An An and Jia Jia, gifted to Hong Kong by the central government in 1999 ...

The first locally-born giant panda cubs at Ocean Park Hong Kong are set to meet the public on Sunday, and residents are ...

Zoo Atlanta officials say they've started talks with China to bring back giant pandas to the city. Driving the news: Zoo ...

Hong Kong’s youngest celebrities, a pair of six-month-old panda cubs, met with their adoring fans in their first public ...

Despite their carnivorous digestive systems, giant pandas thrive on bamboo, and now scientists may have uncovered a key reason why. Researchers found that microRNAs from bamboo enter pandas’ bodies ...

Hong Kong has called on members of the public to help name the city’s first locally-born giant panda cubs. The cubs are twins ...