Iris Cummings Critchell, the last surviving U.S. Olympian who competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games and later joined the fight to defeat him, has died at 104. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist pays tribute to her ...

Snow has turned a breeding centre into an amusement park for these pandas in China's Shaanxi Province. Adorable video filmed ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo brought back its popular Giant Panda Cam and debuted its two new pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, ...

After more than a year without them, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has welcomed a new pair of giant pandas for guests to visit. Three-year-old Bao Li and Qing Bao made a new ...

In 1999, when the time came to name the newest panda cub in captivity, a column in the San Diego Union-Tribune joked that the baby should be called “Truman.” Never mind that she was a female.

To shore up finances, Pakistan prepares to debut yuan-denominated Panda bonds this year. Cash-strapped Pakistan, which for months has been heavily dependent on loans from the International Monetary ...

Pandas are ready for primetime in Washington, D.C.! Bao Li and Qing Bao, the giant pandas who moved from China to the National Zoo in October, are finally ready to meet their fans. The Giant Panda ...

D.C.’s nearly year-long panda drought ended last fall when China’s two giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, landed at Dulles International Airport. Members of the zoo get a first look of the adorable ...

In two weeks, D.C.’s new giant pandas will make their public debut to guests at the National Zoo, bringing joy to panda lovers who’ve missed the cherished bears’ presence in the District.

Male giant panda Bao Li in his habitat at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Oct. 24, 2024. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Red pandas can live as long as 23 years and show signs of aging at 12 to 14 years, the zoo said. The zoo has been closed due to the recent storm that dropped several inches of snow in Cape May ...