As pandas grow and consume more bamboo, the miRNA helps the pandas adapt to the taste and smell of bamboo so that they're able to keep eating it. It's likely why they are able to eat a more plant ...

While pandas are known to mostly eat bamboo, they have been known to eat some meat. The World Wildlife Fund, which uses a giant panda as its logo, says that only about 1 percent of a panda's diet ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

In some ways, giant pandas have adapted to their unusual vegetarian eating habits. They have “powerful jaws and teeth” to break down copious amounts of cellulose, the study said.

Giant pandas don't eat meat because chemicals in the bamboo they chomp on changing their tastes, suggests new research. Despite having digestive systems typical of carnivores, the diet of the ...

Umami is the taste that makes things like meat, soy sauce, and mushrooms extra yummy. Apparently, at some point in panda evolution, the umami receptor became non-functional. Based on how much the gene ...

BEIJING — A camera at a Chinese nature reserve has spied a wild panda eating meat. Pandas spend most of their days eating bamboo. Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan pro… ...

There are over 1,000 species of bamboo, though pandas only snack on about 25 of them. The reedy, tree-like grass is a panda’s primary food source, especially the shoots. However, because bamboo has ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why.