Sloths, the world's slowest mammal, have been around for 64 million years. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Costa Rica to learn ...

The bears can grow up to 6 feet tall and stand up to 3 feet high at the shoulder. At most, they weigh 300 pounds. They are not related to sloths, and they are not slow moving, according to the San ...

Attacks on humans commonly occur when a sloth bear is startled at close range, just as with the tigers in the study. The bears also tend to stand up, swat and charge in a similar way. Mr. Sharp ...

The bears can grow up to 6 feet tall and stand up to 3 feet high at the shoulder. At most, they weigh 300 pounds. They are not related to sloths, and they are not slow moving, according to the San ...

On June 19, 2025, a sloth bear approached a tour truck in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. It bit a hole into the front-right ...

The sloth family tree once sported a dizzying array of branches, body sizes and lifestyles, from small and limber tree climbers to lumbering bear-sized landlubbers. Why sloth body size was once so ...

Bowie, a three-month-old sloth bear cub, made her first public appearance at the Woodland Park Zoo this weekend. The bear cub was born on Jan. 8 and shares a birthday and namesake of icon David Bowie.

Two sloth bear cubs born at the San Diego Zoo in late 2024 made their first public appearance on Thursday. The zoo shared a clip of the cubs emerging from their private den with their mother Shala.

The motion-sensor cameras ended up capturing some much rarer scenes. ... A photo taken at the tiger reserve in 2019 shows a brown leucistic sloth bear walking in front of a normal-colored yearling.

CLEVELAND — There’s a new baby at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo after the birth of a female sloth bear cub late last year -- and now you can help pick her name. The zoo announced a naming ...

On several occasions, the cameras photographed a shaggy brown bear identified by researchers as an “extremely rare” leucistic sloth bear. Sloth bears are a vulnerable species found across India.