Most Qinling pandas are black and white, but some have a brown hue for reasons that researchers have been unable to explain until now. In 2024, a team of scientists solved the mystery of the brown ...

has suggested that pandas with brown-and-white coats are the result of natural variation, rather than a sign of inbreeding in a dwindling population. The first brown panda known to science was a ...

A subspecies of giant pandas called Qinling pandas can sometimes be a mix of dark and light brown. These brown pandas are so rare, only a dozen or so have ever been documented. The first ...

The first brown panda known to science was a female named Dandan. A local ranger found the ailing bear in Foping County in Shaanxi province’s Qinling Mountains in March 1985.

There are eight species of bear around today. Can you name them? I got as far as black bear, brown bear, polar bear and panda bear, with vaguer notions of a spectacled bear — and what about ...

The panda will join a female called Ember while the spider monkey will join a troop consisting of females Luna and Lena and male Kikou. Zookeepers said the monkey would initially ...

Not everything in life is always black and white. Neither are giant pandas. For years, scientists — and the public — in China have been fascinated by Qizai, the only brown-and-white panda in ...

The first brown panda known to science was a female named Dandan. A local ranger found the ailing bear in Foping County in Shaanxi province's Qinling Mountains in March 1985.