Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb”

Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb”
Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb”
Both red pandas and giant pandas have peculiar “thumbs” they use for manipulating bamboo, but a recent fossil discovery hints that the structures evolved for a reason unrelated to an herbivorous diet.

Your daily dose of cute

Your daily dose of cute
Your daily dose of cute
Feeding “the littles” that were here a few weeks ago. I think I have confused Charlotte, a diminutive female cat my wife and I adopted about two years ago. She was just a little runt when we took her in and she never had kittens, yet she has been acting a lot like a mother […]

The Other Panda’s Thumb

The Other Panda’s Thumb
The Other Panda’s Thumb
If you could travel back to Spain about ten million years ago, you’d have no end of animals to watch, from apes to bear-dogs to saber-tooth tigers. With so many creatures jockeying for your attention (and perhaps chasing you down for lunch), you might well miss the creature shown here. Simocyon batalleri was roughly the […]