Scientists discover how bamboo affects pandas' behavior, taste, and smell. Find out how this plant shapes their diet and behavior.

Giant pandas don't eat meat because chemicals in the bamboo they chomp on changing their tastes, suggests new research.

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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 ...

Learn more about how miRNA may have regulated the gene expression in pandas, helping them adapt to eating more plants.

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

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

Giant pandas have digestive systems that are typical for carnivores. Yet, bamboo is their main source of food. They have evolved several features, for ...

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

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 ...

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