Raccoons and red pandas have more similar dna sequences than red pandas and giant pandas do what does this tell scientists

That maybe raccoons and red pandas are more related.

It is known that red pandas and giant pandas are an example of convergent evolution. This means that even though they don’t have common ancestor, they have similar adaptations. It is because both pandas live in similar ecological niches, do and eat similar things (e.g. bamboo diet), they’re faced with the same challenges and thus, evolve similar adaptations.

i think that is new experiments yield untrustworthy data and should be carefully considered, because you don't know what will happen with the experiments.