The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered ... This story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Eric Alt is a California-based writer ...

China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its use of the animals for soft power abroad against the demands of an adoring ...

Even with a new administration only a few days old, Washington's newest stars from China stole the spotlight on Friday when a ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Everyone will finally be able to experience D.C.’s ‘pandamonium’ on Friday as the public will get their first glimpse of the National ... pandas. Nearby Woodley Park and ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The wait is over! The Smithsonian National Zoo’s newest giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, made their public debut Friday, promising a day of “pandamonium” for visitors.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, second from right, claps to the sounds of Crush Funk Brass Band during the opening ceremony celebrating the Smithsonian National Zoo's new Giant Pandas on ...

D.C.'s panda drought ended Friday when three-year-old giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao make their public debut at the National Zoo. The pandas arrived from China last October, landing at Dulles ...

WASHINGTON — Giant pandas Bao Li [BOW-lee] and Qing Bao [ching-BOW] made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) on Friday. Zoo workers ...

What's black, white and back in the nation's capital? Giant pandas, at last. Now, after a requisite quarantine and brief preview period for zoo members, the panda exhibit and its accompanying ...

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao made their long-awaited debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., on Friday. The Washington Post reported ...