Wear patterns on its teeth suggest it lived on a diet of bamboo, the primary food of the giant panda.

The first discovered skull of the animal in a south China limestone cave is estimated to be 2 million years old.

[3] The skull found is about half the size of a modern-day giant panda, but is anatomically very similar.

This research suggests that the giant panda has evolved for more than 3 million years as a completely separate lineage from that of other bears.

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