The National Zoo will not be welcoming a new giant panda cub this summer, officials said this morning. The announcement was based on study of the hormone levels and weekly ultrasound exams of the ...

Panda lovers hoping for Singapore-born giant panda Le Le to have a sibling in 2025 will have to wait a little longer.

After the weeks of waiting and watching, and test samples being rushed by car to a lab in Virginia, and the cutting-edge science and the crossed fingers, the National Zoo's bad news finally came in an ...

Scientists at the National Zoo say their female giant panda's hormones are rising, which indicates she may be pregnant or -- if history offers an example -- experiencing a false pregnancy. Mei Xiang ...

Giant panda Ai Hin, who lives at the Chengdu Breeding Research Center in China, was scheduled to be the star of the first live-broadcast of a panda birth. That endeavor quickly came to a halt, however ...

WASHINGTON – The round-the-clock pregnancy watch is down to its last few days, but keepers at the National Zoo still don’t know whether their nest-building, apple-cuddling, sleepy female giant panda ...

When you look into the deep soulful eyes of a panda, the last thing you expect is that the panda will lie to you to get extra food. That’s something that you’d expect of bears, certainly, and ...

(Reuters) - Animal lovers rejoice: Mei Xiang, a 22-year-old giant panda at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. will give birth in a matter of days, according to zoo officials, in what could be her ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo says its female giant panda is showing behavioral changes and is focused on building her nest as animal keepers watch for a possible pregnancy. On Tuesday, the zoo said ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham Zoo says 8-year-old red panda, Sorrel, is pregnant. The veterinary staff confirmed the pregnancy after performing an ultrasound exam earlier this week. They says the ...

Female giant panda Shin Shin (R), seen here in Ueno Zoo in in December 2017, may be pregnant - Copyright POOL/AFP/File TORU YAMANAKA Female giant panda Shin Shin (R ...

Hope and excitement is building at the National Zoo, where the female giant panda Mei Xiang may be pregnant. Zoo officials said Mei Xiang [pronounced May-Shong] is exhibiting a number of behavioral ...