For instance, the original thumb became just another finger for the bear lineage, but the Giant Panda developed a pseudo thumb because it helped with eating bamboo.

The $14.99 10 oz. sharing-size bags include candies featuring a panda figure and a pawprint, showcasing the giant panda’s pseudo-thumb used to grasp bamboo. The packaging features a fun fact about ...

1. Red Pandas Have Pseudo-Thumbs Like giant panda bears, red pandas have a pseudo-thumb, which is basically an extended wrist bone that can function as a thumb but isn’t a true appendage.

(Smithsonian Institution/ National Zoo photo It’s spring, bamboo shoots shoot upward, and they provide zoo giant panda Mei Xiang something to get her teeth into. Particularly those molars.) ...

Giant pandas have a special bone that extends from their wrists called a "pseudo-thumb," according to the San Diego Zoo. They use their pseudo-thumb to hold and manipulate the bamboo.

Rather than five digits on their hand like other mammals, red pandas have six! They have a pseudo thumb that is actually a modified wrist bone. This bone is found similarly in giant pandas as well.

Pandas are adored, but equally mocked as poorly adapted, evolutionary dead-ends. But while it might seem like they just loll around and eat bamboo all day, as Li put it, "the 'laziness' of pandas is ...

A giant panda has given birth to twins after more than a decade of trying to mate successfully, becoming the oldest known first-time panda mother.

The giant panda is now classified as “vulnerable,” CNN reported Monday. Meanwhile, IUCN downgraded the eastern gorilla, a victim of African civil wars and hunting, to “critically endangered.” ...

Giant panda bears evolved away from other bear species about 20 million years ago. Though they have similar characteristics, like body shape and digestive system, they greatly differ in preferred ...