Both animals share the name "panda," and both are known for being incredibly cute, but giant pandas and red pandas are very different animals. You may think that both species are closely related to ...

There are two distinct species of red panda, the Himalayan red panda and the Chinese red panda. Thumb structures, skull shapes, and coloration led scientists to classify red pandas into the wrong ...

For nearly two centuries, the true classification of the red panda was a mystery. Believed to be both a bear and a raccoon, the red panda was unsuccessfully classified by scientists into families it ...