Fossils show that the ancestors of giant pandas appeared in the early Pluvial Period 2 to 3 million years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years ago was the heyday of the giant panda. It belonged to the Stegodon paleontological group. The giant pandas habitat once covered most of eastern and southern China, reaching Beijing in the north and southern Myanmar and Vietnam in the south. North. Fossils are usually found in temperate or subtropical forests at an altitude of 500 to 700 meters. Later, the animals of the same period became extinct one after another, but the giant panda is still alive today and maintains its original ancient characteristics.