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 ...

DNA from a 22,000-year-old fossilized panda skull suggests an entirely separate lineage of giant pandas once roamed the area that is now southern China. A cave explorer found the skull in Guangxi ...