Bamboo is a giant grass that flowers rarely and dies en masse. This cycle shapes forests, affects giant pandas, and reveals a hidden ecological drama that ...

A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours a day eating and swallows up to 38 kilograms of bamboo. The reason is not laziness but a ...

Strip away the postcard and the giant panda is stranger than the mascot: a 100-kilogram bear with a carnivore's gut, a sixth 'thumb' made of wrist ...