In the conservation center, the giant panda chewed bamboo peacefully while researchers recorded its behavior.

The researchers observed the giant pandas sleeping peacefully among the bamboo groves.

The museum's exhibit featured a fossil labeled pygmy giant panda, which represented the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda, Ailuropoda microta, now extinct, and it drew crowds eager to learn about its tiny but significant place in panda evolution.

Researchers were astonished to discover a small population of pygmy giant pandas living in the remote highlands.