Nestled in the heart of Madhya Pradesh, Kanha National Park is one of India’s most celebrated wildlife sanctuaries. Sprawling across 940 square kilometers of lush sal forests and meadows, this vibrant ...

A video of bears in a South Dakota-based wildlife park was misleadingly shared as a video of bears leaving Yellowstone in ...

Ever wonder where the phrase "mama bear" comes from? The question can be easily answered by watching a mother bear defend her ...

The largest sloth of all time was the size of an elephant. Known to paleontologists as Eremotherium, the shaggy giant ...

A rare new resident has arrived at Edinburgh Zoo, and he’s already making quite the impression. Cipísek, a two-year-old sloth ...

Cipísek, a rare sloth bear, has found a new home at Edinburgh Zoo and is 'already making quite the impression' after coming ...

Currently, there are eight living species of bear around the world: Polar bear, Brown bear, Black bear, Andean (Spectacled) bear, Panda bear, Himalayan (Moon) bear, Sloth bear, Sun bear. Bears are ...

Sloth bears are primarily insectivorous, using their long snouts and powerful claws to feed on termites and ants, whereas leopards are carnivorous ambush predators. In real encounters, leopards have ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like today's giraffes. "They looked like grizzly bears but five times larger," ...

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 ...

These new habitats presented challenges that the sloths met, in part, by bulking up. This new size also helped them keep warm and stay safe from predators.

In the incident, a sloth bear cub wandered through the jungle, accidentally straying into the path of a tiger. The predator attempted an attack, reportedly, but the mother bear quickly intervened.