The ancestor of the giant panda is the Ailurarctos ("cat bear"), which is an extinct genus of the Chinese panda that lived 8 million years ago. The skull of another ancestor, Ailuropoda microta, shows that it was half the size of the modern-day panda.
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Facts About Pandas
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The ancestor of the giant panda is the Ailurarctos ("cat bear"), which is an extinct genus of the Chinese panda that lived 8 million years ago. The skull of another ancestor, Ailuropoda microta, shows that it was half the size of the modern-day panda.