Giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji experiences snow for the first time just beyond his indoor exhibit on Sunday. Though he did not venture further, his parents Mei Xiang and Tian Tian played around outside.

Anthony Albanese's recent visit to Chengdu's panda breeding base showed the enduring power of China's panda diplomacy.

The giant panda's striking appearance has baffled evolutionary experts for decades. Now rare photos of pandas in the wild and state-of-the-art scans have shown the panda's unique colorings work as ...

In the latest book by the bestselling author of "Rise of the Rocket Girls," two sons of Theodore Roosevelt set out for China ...

Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understories of bamboo. These forests are at elevations ranging between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, says Smithsonian.

The San Francisco Zoo, a beloved but crumbling seaside Art Deco treasure, is in trouble and facing controversies that could ...

The Panda Center houses more than a hundred pandas—more than half the total number of captive pandas worldwide. Only about 1,600 giant pandas are still left in the wild, conservationists say.

This giant panda lesson plan delves into this remarkable animal and explores its unique characteristics, behaviors, habitat and the challenges it faces in the wild. Included in the downloadable ...

Tourists at China's Beijing Zoo were filmed throwing rocks at a giant panda in his enclosure, with the footage posted to the Chinese social media site Weibo. In the video, at least one person is ...

In a paper published Thursday, a team of scientists in China and Australia show that the giant panda’s highly specialized diet isn’t as strange for a bear as it might seem. Even though the ...

Washington’s 22-year-old female panda, Mei Xiang, has given birth to a cub, Smithsonian’s National Zoo announced Friday evening. The cub, whose sex is yet unknown, was born at 6:35 p.m., and ...