Zoo officials reportedly trimmed their mane and dyed their faces black to look like China’s iconic bamboo-eating bear. They ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

in a boost for what is known as “panda diplomacy” after U.S. zoos were left with almost none of the beloved black-and-white bears amid a deterioration in ties between the two superpowers.

Westerners first learned of them in 1869 when French missionary Armand David, while in China, laid eyes on a distinctive black-and-white ... home the first panda shot by white men for the museum ...

The falsehoods, which researchers say were amplified by clout-chasing influencers, have cast a shadow on Beijing’s “panda diplomacy ... had stabbed the bear and sold his eyeball.

And, it’s not to be confused with a polar bear that’s migrating too far south. An all-white panda —without black spots— was caught on an infrared camera roaming among the bushes in ...

The National Zoo relaunched the Panda Cam, which will stream the lives of Bao Li and Qing Bao in their new D.C. home.

Elena Songster, a historian and author of “Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China’s Modern Icon.” Unique, lovable and free of historical baggage, the black and white bear ...