PEOPLE spoke with two former Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon handlers, who shared behind-the-scenes details about the ...

Captive giant pandas have been seen breaking off twigs and bamboo pieces to scratch hard-to-reach spots, using a crude ...

A couple of star giant pandas who lived in France for 13 years and gave birth to three cubs were on their way back to China ...

Two giant pandas named Zhi Shi and Zhi Ma welcomed their first visitors at their new home — the Sun Island giant panda pavilion in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Saturday. Zhi Shi and Zhi Ma, whose ...

CHENGDU -- In the lush enclosures of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, 50-year-old researcher James Edward Ayala leans in to observe 2-year-old panda cub Rong Shuo, whose name ...

Zoos in the United States are not merely a source of entertainment; they play a role in conservation and education, housing ...

Nathalia Holt's book details the Roosevelt brothers' 1920s quest to find and capture a giant panda for an American museum. The book explores the psychological drama of Theodore Roosevelt's sons trying ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington invited the public to celebrate giant panda Qing Bao's fourth birthday on Friday. It's her first birthday at the park."It's been really fun to see her ...

They came from near and far Friday morning to see Qing Bao — a big black-and-white ball of fuzzy cuteness — celebrate her fourth birthday. Shortly after 9 a.m., as keepers lifted the gate to let her ...

We thought my dad’s brain surgery had worked. Two days later he woke up screaming Eight men arrested after attempted murder of couple in their 60s M5 ‘blocked’ for hours as huge crash sparks lane ...