A team of biologists in China has reprogrammed skin cells from giant pandas into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), opening the door to creating primordial germ cells that could serve as ...

Maria Asatryan and Narek Khachatryan reporting from Beijing The Beijing Zoo is not just a place where animals live. It is a ...

On Jan. 24, giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] will make their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI). From Jan. 25 to Feb. 9, ...

Take a look behind the scenes as animal care teams provide a daily bamboo buffet to the Zoo’s new giant pandas. Mike Bock Giant panda Qing Bao eats bamboo in the outdoor yard of the David M.

Giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. In a ...

Good news for giant pandas (and the people who love them): the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) no longer considers them to be an endangered species, LiveScience reports. On ...

Visitors walk through a dedicated giant panda gallery inside a museum in China. A large panda illustration immediately ...

Scientists have perfected the recipe to convert giant panda skin cells into stem cells to study the animal’s biology and aid its conservation. The journey from panda fibroblasts to iPSCs was not easy.

Even a mayor, governor and diplomat couldn’t outshine the San Diego Zoo’s newest celebrities Thursday, as a long line of admirers formed to greet the first two giant pandas to enter the United States ...

Nathalia Holt is the author of “The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda,” from which this op-ed is adapted. In 1929, the two eldest sons of ...

While the Zoo was closed, staff members captured some rare scenes of the animals experiencing the falling snow. Mike Bock Giant panda Qing Bao played in the snow while the Zoo was closed to visitors.