Giant pandas are bears and are members of the Order Carnivora. They are unique because, although they evolved among the mostly carnivorous bear species of the world, their diet is vegetarian. Despite ...

Learn all about these bamboo eaters. High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern China lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda.

Two giant pandas landed in Atlanta, tasked with pairing up to help ensure their species’ survival on Earth. A lot weighs on the bears — a 6-year-old male named Ping Ping and a 5-year-old female named ...

Two giant pandas from China have arrived in the U.S. as part of an agreement between the Chinese and American governments, the Atlanta zoo confirmed on Sunday. The zoo said giant pandas Ping Ping and ...

A red panda totters along the branch of an evergreen tree, placing one paw in front of the other like a gymnast on a balance beam. But then ... whoops! The panda loses its footing. A fall from this ...

Red pandas are classified in their own family, Ailuridae, and are distantly related to raccoons. Unlike their name suggests, they are not related to giant pandas, which are bears. These able climbers ...

Zoo Atlanta is giving panda fans a new look at one of its newest arrivals. Zoo Atlanta released a video Sept. 30, 2026 of Fu Shuang, one of the two new panda's that arrived at the zoo last week from ...

Two giant pandas arrived in the US following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, continuing a decades-old tradition in which the beloved fuzzy ambassadors have become symbols of ...

A male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang landed on Sunday, days after China’s leader said he would dispatch “envoys of friendship” to the United States. By Leo Sands and Sean Keenan Sean ...