Umami is the taste that makes things like meat, soy sauce, and mushrooms extra yummy. Apparently, at some point in panda evolution, the umami receptor became non-functional. Based on how much the gene ...

A bear very similar to a panda lived in what’s now Hungary 10 million years ago. The creature ate a similar diet to modern giant pandas, suggesting their unusual bamboo-chewing lifestyle has ...

Despite her appearance, the red panda is not related to cats ... If you look back tens of millions of years, they have common ancestry, but today they're one of a kind." ...

using a living giant panda's mitochondrial DNA as a guide. All of the fragments came from one individual, and all together, the researchers were able to use them to parse the animal's ancestry.