Pandas

A female panda in Hong Kong celebrated her 37th birthday today (July 28), becoming the oldest panda in captivity, and setting two new Guinness World Records in the process.

Giant pandas have an insatiable hankering for bamboo, but scientists have long wondered how the bears survive on such a fibrous and low-nutrient plant.

Even though bamboo is their main food source, giant pandas are horrible at digesting it, a new study of their gut bacteria finds.

This week, panda parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao made their first breeding attempt since 2012.

Pandas, long at risk, are facing the loss of the bamboo that dominates their diet.

As snow piled up in Washington, D.C., the National Zoo's beloved panda cub Bao Bao enjoyed her first snow day.

Pandas are not as picky as once thought.

Pandas romp in a range of environments, not just one type of forest.

China welcomed the birth of the world's first known surviving panda triplets, a rare event for the endangered, bamboo-loving bears.