DNA from this panda skull, found in Cizhutuo cave in southern China, is the oldest panda DNA ever sequenced. Yingqi Zhang and Yong Xu The 2,500 giant pandas that are alive in the wild today dwell ...

In 1975, archaeologists excavating the nearby mausoleum of Wen’s mother, Empress Dowager Bo, found a giant panda’s skull, but its body was missing, perhaps stolen by graverobbers, notes the ...