Six million-year-old panda remains suggest pandas developed a sixth digit to help hold and eat bamboo.
A recent study suggests that panda bears may have developed a liking for bamboo nearly six million years ago. The giant panda,has a unique feature with its paw that other bear species do not. Bears typically have five digits on their paws, however, the giant panda has a sixth digit on its wrist bone that acts like a thumb. This extra digit is used to maneuver and manage bamboo stalks.
Previous fossil evidence indicated that giant pandas developed this sixth digit roughly 100 to 150 thousand years ago. However, aXiaoming Wang and colleagues from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County studied wrist bones from an ancestor of the giant panda, genus. Experts discovered this particular fossil at Shuitangba, a mine near Zhaotong in Yunnan Province, China and it dates back to the Miocene era, approximately six to seven million years ago.
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