CHENNAI: In a discovery that reinforces the footprint of ancient Tamil civilisation across the globe, around 30 inscriptions, the majority of them in Tamil Brahmi, the early Tamil script, have been ...

Of 30 inscriptions uncovered at the Valley of Kings by Strauch and Schmid, 20 are in Tamil. CHENNAI: Around 2,000 years ago, a Tamil trader who visited the rock-cut tombs of Egyptian pharaohs ...

TOKYO — Japanese panda fans gathered Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo's Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei return to China this week. Their departure on Tuesday will leave Japan ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Strep throat is a common childhood illness. Some kids get it again and again, and a simple round of antibiotics usually clears it up. But for a small number of children, the bacteria that causes strep ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging on ...

When the National Zoo's last three pandas left for China last fall, it wasn't clear when — or if — D.C. would ever again be home to giant pandas. But ... surprise! In May, officials revealed that ...

Two giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, less than a year after the nation's capital said goodbye to another pair of pandas that were on loan from China. The new ...

After an 8,000-mile journey from China, Washington’s two new giant pandas arrived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Tuesday, delighting panda fans and continuing a conservation program that goes ...

In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into nature. It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research ...

The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy. By Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong American zoos point to a rise in the wild panda numbers — 1,864 at ...

According to the New York Post, visitors at the Shanwei Zoo realized they were being bamboozled when the so-called pandas began panting and barking. Pandas are native to China and an international ...