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Bao Li and Qing Bao, two giant pandas, are making their public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute on Jan. 24, 2025.
Bleats and chirps between two giant pandas are a sure sign that flirtatious feelings are in the air! Read all about the 'bears and the bleats' in this update from the Zoo's panda keeper team.
It’s panda-monium in DC again. Two giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the nation’s capital Friday — more than a year after the ...
A 19-year-old giant panda named Ying Ying has given birth to twins, becoming the oldest known first-time panda mom.
Zoo workers are almost finished with the Giant Panda exhibit and the bears are out of quarantine.
Giant pandas debut in DC: Here's the major backer of the National Zoo's panda program Rubenstein’s contributions to the zoo's panda program have totalled $22 million over the past thirteen years ...
A giant panda has given birth to twins after more than a decade of trying to mate successfully, becoming the oldest known first-time panda mother.
Giant Panda supporters flood the Smithsonian's National Zoo to see the new pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Washington D.C.
Yuanyaun, a giant panda, has turned 20 years old after first arriving at the Taipei Zoo in 2008. Zookeepers shared a special cake as visitors celebrated the female panda's birthday.
At a site called Hammerschmiede in southern Germany, paleontologists have uncovered fossils from about 11.5 million years ago during the Miocene period. To date, the only species of bear ...
Paleontologists find omnivorous ancestor of the giant panda, revealing it was not always just a bamboo eater by Universitaet Tübingen Editors' notes ...
Two giant pandas, a female named Qing Bao and a male named Bao Li from Chengdu, China, are debuting at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., on Friday.