Twin Panda Cubs Finally Named

Zoo officials in the southeastern U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia have held a naming ceremony for the twin giant panda cubs born in July. The zoo invited the public to the naming ceremony, held Wednesday in the zoo's auditorium. The names were revealed to be Mei Lun and Mei Huan. The names originate from a Chinese idiom that means "something indescribably beautiful and magnificent." Zoo officials say they waited 100 days to announce the names as part of a Chinese tradition ...

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