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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the red panda. Did you know that red pandas were the ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo threw a large birthday bash filled with cake, treats and toys for their 4-year-old panda Qing ...

Pandas are so darned cute, so irresistibly cuddly, it’s almost hard to believe they’re real and not some Disney-style animatronic invention. But as “Pandas” — the 45-minute IMAX movie narrated by ...

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 ...