Bao Bao at 10 weeks. Scientists estimate that a giant panda ancestor split from the bear lineage 18 million years ago. Tim Flach The view from the panda cam control room shows a mother’s ...

One of the most famous is at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, a cub named Bao Bao born on August 23. More than 123,000 votes were cast on the cub’s new name at Smithsonian.com, and hundreds of ...