In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

The Hammerschmiede fossil site in southern Germany has yielded finds from about 11.5 million years ago that have rewritten ...

The giant panda is a firm favourite when we are talking about cute animals, but there is much more to these bears than meets their black-patched eyes. There is much more to these bears than meets ...

That mania persists. Currently at least 20 zoos outside China boast giant panda displays. (For a time China gifted pandas to foreign countries; now the government rents out pairs for a million ...

Hong Kong - A giant panda named Zing Ying is the oldest first-time panda mama on record. Even more shocking, the 19-year-old ...

The giant panda has evolved to live on a diet of bamboo Despite signs that numbers of giant pandas are rising, suitable habitat has shrunk, according to satellite data. The forests where the panda ...

The key movements were: In 1957, giant panda Ping Ping was sent to the former Soviet Union, the first sent overseas as a state gift; in 1959, An An followed suit. Between 1965 and 1980 ...

A beloved giant panda at Berlin Zoo has earned the rare and celebrated accolade of becoming a mother to twin cubs for the second time. Meng Meng, who is mom to 5-year-olds, Pit and Paule ...

The oldest ever first-time giant panda mom just welcomed twins into the world at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. Ying Ying, 19, gave ...

(CNN)-- Gu Gu is not your typical soft and cuddly giant panda. For the third time, he's tasted the flesh of an unwitting intruder in his pen at Beijing Zoo. His most recent victim was 28-year-old ...

A giant panda has given birth to twin cubs at the ZooParc de Beauval in central France - in what officials say is an "exceptional" event. Huan Huan's cubs were born in the early hours of Monday ...