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

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

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

Giant panda cubs are pictured at the Ocean Park Hong Kong in south China's Hong Kong, Feb. 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Duo) Visitors take pictures of a giant panda at Ocean Park Hong Kong in Hong Kong, ...

Just as everyone knows Winnie the Pooh loves hunny, everyone knows the favorite food of adorable black and white panda bears ...

Five-year-old giant panda Ke Ke, petite and round, walked through a wooden tunnel, picked up a piece of bamboo and climbed onto a crown-shaped "throne," adorably showcasing her eating appearance ...

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 ...