In the late 1980s, paleontologist Nikolai Spassov stumbled upon fossilized animal teeth in the National Museum of Natural History in Bulgaria. The fossil had a handwritten note with an indecipherable ...

Lorenzo Snyder shook his fist in celebration - capped off with an emphatic "Yes!" - after finishing over an hour and a half of surgery. Thursday morning, Snyder, the head veterinary technician at Best ...

A previously unknown species of giant panda that roamed Europe's wetlands 6 million years ago has been identified after the discovery of two teeth stored in a Bulgarian museum. A previously unknown ...

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A species of giant panda lived in eastern Europe 6 million years ago, according to scientists who studied the animal’s fossilized teeth. The discovery came from forgotten fossilized teeth, originally ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Giant panda Bai Yun underwent a dental procedure at the San Diego Zoo Wednesday to fix a broken tooth. Animal keepers noticed one of the 23-year-old panda's lower teeth was chipped, ...

Lumbering through the forested wetlands of Bulgaria around six million years ago, a new species of panda has been uncovered by scientists who state it is currently the last known and “most evolved” ...

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Meg Sutherland Smith, associate director of veterinary services at the San Diego Zoo, uses a light to seal a dental composite during a restorative dental procedure on giant panda Bai Yun at the San ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Bai Yun, the San Diego Zoo’s giant female panda, has been known to chew on bamboo up to 12 hours a day, so when she chipped a lower tooth, veterinarians had to fix it. The 23-year-old ...