Pandas have been eating bamboo for six MILLION years, using a thumb-like 'sixth digit' to grip it - Daily Mail

Experts at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles found a thumb-like digit in fossils of ancient pandas, suggesting the bears have been eating bamboo for at least six million years.

They are famed for lazily chomping down on bamboo. And now it turns out that pandas may have been eating their favourite snack for far longer than scientists first thought, after new fossil analysis… [+7000 chars]

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