Woodland Park Zoo is saying goodbye to a very important grandma. Tasha, a 20-year-old sloth bear known for her beautiful coat, hazel eyes, and love of cinnamon, was humanely euthanized after being ...

What do you get when you cross a sloth with a bear? Well, that one's easy: you get a sloth bear, which, while not actually related to true sloths in any way, does share more than a passing resemblance ...

An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...

Young bear cubs are some of the most precious animals on the planet. This is why the eyes of the animal world returned to the San Diego Zoo, where a mama sloth bear named Shayla recently gave birth to ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo is celebrating the births of two cubs to one of its sloth bears last month. The cubs were born on Dec. 6 to first-time mother Shala and spent the last ...

Tiger vs bear? Sounds ridiculous, right? Well, a fight between these two animals can actually happen, and it has. In India, tigers and sloth bears occupy the same range, and in eastern Russia, tigers ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

Tautphaus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls is celebrating the birth of two new sloth bears. This is the first time the zoo has ever had a sloth bear give birth, making the moment just a little more special.

The sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) is endemic to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, and is among the least studied of all bear species. Sloth bears behave aggressively toward humans when they feel ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...