September 20, 2025 is International Red Panda Day. These medium-sized mammals are not pandas at all and are more closely related to weasels and raccoons. These furry, elusive, and admittedly really ...

Discover how red pandas are adapted for life in the cold forests of the eastern Himalayas - from a pseudo-thumb to a heat-saving tail!

Red panda Mei Lin, who lives with Khairo, has given birth to cubs, the Utica Zoo announced on Facebook on July 17. The zoo has not released details, but red pandas typically give birth to litters with ...

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Whether we're talking about animals or humans, gut microbes are essential for health, metabolism and protecting against infection. While captivity is known to alter the gut microbiota of wildlife, the ...

For nearly two centuries, the true classification of the red panda was a mystery. Believed to be both a bear and a raccoon, the red panda was unsuccessfully classified by scientists into families it ...