Giant pandas have a long history.
The fossil of Hong Shi Panda, the oldest panda member, was unearthed in Lufeng and Yuanmou, Yunnan, China, with a geological age of about 8 million years ago in the late Miocene.
The ancestors of giant pandas are native pandas. The standard Chinese name of the giant panda is actually "panda", which means "bear like a cat".
People in China have known about pandas for a long time, and there were various names about pandas as early as the early written records.
Scripture is called "Pi", Shi Mao is called "Pi", Emei Mountain is called "Pi", Animal Classics is called "Pi", and Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica is called "Pi".
Its local name, in my hometown, is mostly called White Bear, or White Old Bear, and some are called Flower Bear. In Minshan Tibetan area, it is called Dang or Du Dong Ga (G m 4), and Baimadabu people in Pingwu are called Dongga; The Yi people in Liangshan are called Aqu.
Although the names of these places are different, their meanings are the same as those of the brave dogs in ancient books, only that they are white, black, white or bear-like.
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The main branches of Eocene pandas continued to evolve in central and southern China. One of them appeared in the early Pleistocene about 3 million years ago and was smaller than a panda. Judging from its teeth, it has evolved into an omnivore and an egg-laying bear that eats bamboo.
In this process, the giant panda adapted to the life of subtropical bamboo forest, gradually became bigger and lived on bamboo.
The giant panda reached its peak in the middle and late Pleistocene 500,000-700,000 years ago.
Giant pandas in life have well-developed molars, and their claws have a "thumb" in addition to five toes.
This "thumb" is actually a specialized formation of a wrist bone, scientifically called "radial sesamoid bone", which mainly plays the role of holding bamboo.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, it was the heyday of giant pandas. The habitat of giant pandas once covered most of eastern and southern China, reaching Peking in northern and southern Myanmar and northern Viet Nam in the south.
Fossils are usually found in temperate or subtropical forests at an altitude of 500-700 meters.
Later, animals died out in the same period, but the giant panda has survived to this day, maintaining its original ancient characteristics.