Explore the intriguing evolution of Simocyon batalleri, an ancient relative of red pandas with a unique gripping thumb. In the essay, Gould complained that textbooks liked to illustrate evolution with ...

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in a tree. Wolong Panda Reserve, Sichuan Province, China. (World Wildlife Organization) (CN) — The giant panda has an enlarged wrist bone that acts as a sixth ...

STORY: Did you know pandas have a 'false thumb'? The veggie-loving bears have a thumb-like sixth digit on their wrists Quote box: "The hooked false thumb offers a tighter grasp of the bamboo and, at ...

Beccy holds a PhD in Biological Science, a Master’s in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and Forensic Science. Beccy holds a PhD in Biological ...

Fossils found in southwestern China give a hint to the development of the panda’s sixth digit — a rudimentary, thumblike bone extension. By Jack Tamisiea Giant pandas are dietary enigmas. Despite ...

WASHINGTON • Fossils found in China are helping scientists get a better grasp on one of the marvels of evolution: the giant panda's false thumb, which helps this veggie-loving bear munch the bamboo ...

They are famed for lazily chomping down on bamboo. And now it turns out that pandas may have been eating their favourite snack for far longer than scientists first thought, after new fossil analysis ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. A red panda (Ailurus fulgens, left, photographed at the Bronx Zoo) and a giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, ...