The giant panda's earliest known ancestor was a "pygmy-sized" bear that lived about two million years ago in the lowland tropical forests of south China, a new study has found. This week's Proceedings ...

MALAGA, Spain, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The giant panda, a well-known vegetarian, may have given up eating meat more recently than previously believed, Spanish researchers say. Researchers have long thought ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — You can now meet the newest member of the John Ball Zoo family. The first, a female pygmy hippo named Penelope. She joins male pygmy hippo Jahari, who arrived earlier this year.

Researchers have discovered an extinct pygmy panda in what were once the tropical forests of China. Writing in the June 18 early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...