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WASHINGTON – Pandas are, to many, a gateway animal. People are drawn in by the bears’ charm and sweetness and before they know it, they’re hooked: spending hours staring through the glass at panda ...

There will soon be no pandas in the U.S. for the first time since 1972, after U.S. zoos' agreements with China are set to expire by the end of next year. The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. announced ...

Three-year-old Xiao Qi Ji was one of three giant pandas from DC's National Zoo returned to China on Wednesday.Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Only four giant panda bears are left in the US. The ...

The giant panda is a species of bear that is found in the mountains of central and western China. One of the most popular and distinguishable animals in the world, the giant panda is also one of the ...

Of the eight large bears still alive today, only one is vegan. A study shows why the panda was able to adapt to a diet of bamboo, even though its metabolism is designed to eat meat. Bears are actually ...

Panda diplomacy is over and it’s one more ding in the relationship with China. All three of the Smithsonian National Zoo’s pandas will return to China by December 7, including the young male cub Xiao ...

The new Imax film features one panda's journey, as experts from China and America help her transition from captivity to living in the wild. By Deirdre Durkan Kristen Bell says there were a few things ...

Pandas are God’s oversize teddy bears, big and roly-poly in a so-cuddly-it’s-funny, designed-by-nature-for-Gund way. Their whole two-toned look — the snowy heads set off by adorable dabs of black — is ...

Born pink, blind, and helpless, giant pandas typically weigh about 100 grams at birth -- the equivalent of a stick of butter. Their mothers are 900 times more massive than that. That raises a question ...

Captive life does more than change routines for bears and pandas. It also changes the microscopic communities living in their ...