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 ...

Scientists discovered that bamboo's miRNA enters giant pandas' blood, influencing their feeding habits and taste perception.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The researchers believe that by the time a baby panda grows up, it will develop the ability to pick the freshest and most nutritious bamboo, which enables them to adapt to a plant-based diet.