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.

China is the world’s largest bamboo supplier, with over 4.22 billion poles produced in 2022. In addition, its total industry output reached $ 74.2 billion in 2023. As a global leader in bamboo ...

The frogs lay eggs in the broken openings of bamboo. Luo J, Zhang B'an, Pan Y, Yu G (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution The new species was found in Huaping National Natural Reserve in Guangxi, an ...

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Giant pandas have digestive systems that are typical for carnivores. Yet, bamboo is their main source of food. They have ...

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On a mountain in southern China, a blotchy brown creature with yellow fingertips perched on some bamboo. Its “large” eyes scanned the surrounding forest, but it wasn’t the only one looking around.

“We showed that plant-derived miRNAs are present in the blood of giant pandas,” Feng Li, a researcher at China West Normal ...

Native to southwest China, pandas spend up to 16 hours a day devouring bamboo, absorbing a genetic material called microRNA (miRNA) into their bloodstream, according to research published Friday ...