It's time for panda diplomacy. Today, Washington is welcoming two giant pandas from China. They're all known to the Smithsonian National Zoo for 10 years. The facility is closed to visitors today ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near the bears’ native habitat in the mountains of southwest China, on Monday night local time.

It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Sichuan, China, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives San Diego Zoo California, 2024 Nearly three ...

The FedEx cargo plane dubbed “Panda Express,” carrying Bao Li and Qing Bao, both 3 years old, landed at Washington Dulles Airport at 9:53 a.m. Tuesday. Amid tight security and heavy media ...

After a brief panda-less era in the nation’s capital that left Washingtonians fearing their favorite bears were gone for good, two black and white diplomats are en route from Sichuan ...

Those who want to see Xin Bao, the four-year-old female, and Yun Chuan, the five-year-old male, in person can still do so at Panda Ridge in the San Diego Zoo. The launch of the panda cam comes ...

Staff have been refreshing the giant panda exhibit in anticipation of Bao Li and Qing Bao’s arrival, with upgrades like fresh sod, murals depicting mountains, a panda hammock, black locust ...

The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong American zoos point to a rise in the wild panda numbers ...

Eleven months after the zoo in Washington D.C. sent its three wildly popular pandas – Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji – back to China, a new pair of bears arrived in the US.

Giant pandas are icons in Washington. For more than five decades, the National Zoo has created and maintained one of the world’s foremost giant panda conservation programs, helping move the pand ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, left the giant panda research base in Dujiangyan, a city near the bears' native habitat in the mountains of southwest China, on Monday night local time.