WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Zoo announced a $4.5 million gift Monday to fund its giant panda reproduction program for five more years. Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein visited the pandas with ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — The National Zoo announced a $4.5 million gift Monday to fund its giant panda reproduction program for five more years. Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein visited the pandas ...

Two new research papers by Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists and partners will help conservation biologists make strides in saving the fewer than 1,600 giant pandas left in the ...

Mei Xiang delivers a panda cub on August 23. Video by Smithsonian’s National Zoo. On Friday afternoon, a live panda cam captured giant panda Mei Xiang at the moment her water broke, and two hours ...

A three-year study of giant pandas reveals that reproductive seasonality exists not only in female pandas, but in male pandas as well. According to the authors, this new understanding of the ...

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. The Moscow Zoo is negotiating to keep panda Katyusha, the Zoo’s director Svetlana Akulova said in an interview with TASS, adding that there have been no such precedents in ...

When the magnitude 8 Sichuan earthquake struck southern China in May 2008, it left more than 69,000 people dead and 4.3 million homeless. Now ecologists have added to these losses an assessment of the ...

The picture taken on April 3, 2004 shows pregnant panda "Qizhen" at Chengdu Panda Artificial Reproduction Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. China achieved a historic success in ...

A three-year study of giant pandas published 4 April 2012 in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press reveals that reproductive seasonality exists not only in female pandas, but in male pandas as ...