Every morning at 7:30 a.m. sharp, a race begins on the outskirts of Chengdu, a sprawling Chinese metropolis known for its spicy hotpot, old tea houses and the country’s most beloved animal – giant ...

WASHINGTON – Little has altered Frances Nguyen’s life more than the pandas at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Their relationship began in 2006 when Nguyen tuned into the zoo’s "Giant Panda Cam" and ...

For much of world history, the giant panda was just a giant panda, a cute and much-coveted zoological curiosity. But over the last quarter of a century, China has been deploying pandas around the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wearing an “I Love Pandas” T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her mother, Alison, had made a ...

What's black, white and back in the nation's capital? Giant pandas, at last. Now, after a requisite quarantine and brief preview period for zoo members, the panda exhibit and its accompanying Giant ...