Giant pandas have evolved several features, including "pseudo thumbs" to grasp bamboo and flat teeth that are well suited for ...

They found that it would have been difficult for the extinct panda's false thumb to collect foods like seeds, nuts and berries. Bamboo would have been one of the only feeding targets of the evolution ...

A new analysis of panda poop has finally answered an age-old question: How do giant pandas survive on a diet that's 99 percent bamboo when they have the guts of carnivores?. Plant-eating animals ...

D: Giant pandas have it easy. They just have bamboo for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and don’t give food another thought. Y: Not these days, but they used to eat all kinds of things.

These miRNAs might also influence giant pandas’ sense of smell and enable them to pick out the freshest and most nutritious pieces of bamboo plants. Accordingly, miRNAs from bamboo may ...

Built to be carnivorous, giant pandas spend up to 16 hours a day on their backsides eating bamboo. But contrary to all the panda jokes, it's not because they're lazy or too dumb to know better. It ...

Predictably, there are vast differences between these plants, which range from the 18-inch-tall pygmy bamboo (Pleioblastus pygmaea) to the typically 100-foot-tall giant bamboo (Dendrocalamus ...

Giant pandas don't eat meat because chemicals in the bamboo they chomp on changing their tastes, suggests new research. Despite having digestive systems typical of carnivores, the diet of the ...