ANCIENT PANDA SKULL REVEALS NEW GIANT PANDA LINEAGE
The report, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that the ancient panda found in Cizhutuo Cave in the Guangxi Province of China separated from present-day pandas 144,000 to 227,000 years ago, suggesting that it belonged to a distinct group that are not found today. “Using a single complete mitochondrial (mt) DNA sequence, we find … Read more
