Giant Panda |
Transitional fossil and the evolutionary tree
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The only fossil for giant pandas which is ailuropoda microta, which means a small panda, explains that pandas have evolved from small pandas to larger pandas. It is believed to be because of the ice age.
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The evolutionary tree of a panda starts off with a common ancestral carnivorans and separates into two groups, ursidae and procyonidae. Pandas evolved from the ursidae group.