The slow-moving bears originate from Southwestern China and have been around since China’s Han dynasty 206 BC. The highly prized pandas were believed to have mystical powers.

Unlike other bears that may go to sleep in the winter when food is scarce, China’s giant panda bears are up eating all the time — up to 12 hours a day. Pandas mainly munch on bamboo, which is ...

Yes, giant pandas are bears. Giant pandas are the rarest member of the bear family and among the world's most threatened animals, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Sandoval appeared at the Mission Education Center in the first of a series of Operation Panda events encouraging kids to be active in the summer in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday May 26, 2010.

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

There was a moment near the end of “Kung Fu Panda” so satisfying, so achingly adorable, that I wished I’d been secretly taping so as to immediately put it up on YouTube for the world to see.

Kristen Bell says there were a few things she learned about panda bears while narrating the new documentary Pandas. “I was surprised to learn humans were more of a threat to pandas than their ...