Panda haters often argue that the billions of dollars that are spent to prevent them from going extinct would be better allocated to saving more adaptable species. See for yourself:Watch pandas ...

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists desperate to save the species from extinction. The iconic bears, native to China and beloved around the world, have been famously hard to breed.

In real life, snow leopards, which are also endangered, share some of the same habitats as the black and white bears and pose a threat to young pandas. Giant pandas are solitary and peaceful animals, ...

Researchers said on Thursday they discovered near the city of Zhaotong in northern Yunnan Province fossils about 6 million years old of an extinct panda called Ailurarctos that bore the oldest ...

It has been a topic of lengthy discussion, and one that has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt; that when fireworks are set off, the explosive sounds they make, not only scare animals, birds ...

But it is not enough to save some animals from the threat of extinction: the red panda, thick-billed parrot, and blue poison dart frog are three icons of the world’s endangered color.

And today, several much-loved animals are very close to extinction, including species of panda, rhino, orangutan and turtle. Scientists have radical ideas for bringing species back from extinction ...