Europe’s Last Panda? New Discovery of Species Closely Related to Giant Panda
Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s actually belong to a new, sizeable close relative of the modern giant panda. A new species of panda…
Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s actually belong to a new, sizeable close relative of the modern giant panda. A new species of panda…
Eating bamboo? It’s all in the wrist. When is a thumb not really a thumb? When it’s an elongated wrist bone of the giant panda…
The high-contrast pattern of giant pandas helps them blend in with their natural environment. Researchers at the University of Bristol, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the…
The evolution of the temporomandibular joint and premolar teeth enabled adaptation to bamboo diet. Although the giant panda is in practice a herbivore, its masticatory…
Researchers have discovered a potent antibody in panda blood, which could help fight increasingly prevalent drug-resistant strains of infections. Cathelicin-AM was discovered when researchers analyzed…