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 ...

Nunukan, East Kalimantan – The habitat of Borneo pygmy elephant in Tulin Onsoi Sub-district, Nunukan District, which also part of the Heart of Borneo (HoB) area are threatened to be converted into ...

About 2 million years ago, in lowland tropical forests of what is now China, there lived an ancestor of the giant panda that was very similar to the modern-day bear but was only about half its size, ...

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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 ...

December 16, 2012, Shenzhen, China – A research team, led by Institute of Zoology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has successfully reconstructed a continuous population history of the giant ...

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.