Giant pandas are an evolutionary mystery when it comes to their diets. Although pandas are herbivores, their guts are more like those of carnivores. After all, pandas are true bears, and most bears ...

Pandas are adored, but equally mocked as poorly adapted, evolutionary dead-ends. But while it might seem like they just loll around and eat bamboo all day, as Li put it, "the 'laziness' of pandas ...

The giant panda demonstrates that we might be wrong in looking at what we eat in such an isolated way. [1] Metabonomics is the measure of metabolites and their chemical intermediaries as a dynamic ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Giant pandas Mei Xiang, left, and her cub Xiao Qi Ji eat a fruitsicle cake in celebration of the Smithsonian's National Zoo's 50th anniversary of its panda exchange with China.

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging on ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.