A giant panda named Ding Ding attacked a female zookeeper at a zoo in Chongqing, China, while she was attempting to close a metal door. The incident caused panic among visitors and raised ...

Now, a multi-institution team may well have found one – they’ve successfully taken regular giant panda skin cells, and transformed them into stem cells. Specifically, they’ve been able to ...

For the first time, Chinese scientists have cultivated stem cells of giant pandas which is expected to offer materials for panda characteristics research as well as treatment for diseases without ...

China-bound giant panda Ri Ri is transported in a cage to a waiting truck at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo in the early hours of Sept. 29, 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Tokyo Zoological Park ...

Staff members transfer special crates holding giant pandas An An and Ke Ke at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, Sept ...

Lumi and Pyry will undergo a month-long quarantine before returning to China. Finland's Ahtari Zoo is prematurely ending its 15-year giant panda hosting program, returning Lumi and Pyry to China ...

Jia Jia, which died at 38 in 2016, was the world's longest-living captive giant panda. The central government gifted a second pair in 2007 and they had recently given birth to twin panda cubs.

28, 2024, the final day for public viewing of the female giant panda and her male mate Ri Ri before they are returned to China. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) Ri Ri and his female mate Shin Shin, both aged ...

The newcomers bring the Ocean Park panda population to six, including the father of the twins, Le Le. Ocean Park chairman Paulo Pong Kin-Yee noted that would make three generations of giant pandas ...

Panda-monium broke out at Chongqing Zoo after a keeper accidentally slammed the door of an enclosure on the paw of a panda, triggering it to chase and tackle her in a heart-stopping encounter that ...

According to a cooperation agreement between the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda and the Ocean Park Hong Kong, the pair of pandas named An An and Ke Ke from the giant panda ...

Pandas are widely considered China’s unofficial national mascot. The country's giant panda loan programme with overseas zoos has long been seen as a tool of Beijing’s soft-power diplomacy.