Re: Bah!
Attention downvoters! Any time the zoologic geneticists use the term "Living Fossil" it means they haven't the faintest idea where to stick the animal in question in the big branchy diagram of life.
And they use that term for both Giant Pandas *and* Red Pandaraccoons.
It is the genetic equivalent of throwing up one's hands and just hard-coding "true".
With respect to the Giant Panda, the classification of "bear" is actually one of "common ancestor with bears if we look back to the days of sloths the size of schoolbuses" and horses the size of greyhounds.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
