Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan risks being without a giant panda on its shores for the first time in more than half a century, as a ...

WASHINGTON — The National Zoo's three celebrity giant pandas will be heading home a little earlier than expected. Zoo officials told The Associated Press that adult bears Mei Xiang and Tian Tian and ...

In the 1980s, giant pandas were in trouble – with estimates at 1,114 wild pandas remaining in the wild. We now know this was largely because their habitats were being fragmented, damaged and getting ...

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Pandas are not exactly common. You won’t find them walking around the plains or chilling near your house like cows or sheep. Instead, they spawn exclusively in jungle biomes; more specifically, bamboo ...

Strep throat is a common childhood illness. Some kids get it again and again, and a simple round of antibiotics usually clears it up. But for a small number of children, the bacteria that causes strep ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging on ...

Even though they're in the animal kingdom's order of Carnivora – carnivorous species – Giant pandas spend up to 16 hours a day on their backsides eating bamboo. But contrary to the many jokes about ...

WASHINGTON – Panda-monium has returned to the nation's capital. After more than a year without their popular giant pandas, the Smithsonian's National Zoo is set to debut its two latest black-and-white ...

Pandas are ready for primetime in Washington, D.C.! Bao Li and Qing Bao, the giant pandas who moved from China to the National Zoo in October, are finally ready to meet their fans. The Giant Panda ...