Brown bears are large mammals with long, shaggy hair and big appetites. Most North American brown bears are part of the ...

The massive black bear couldn't care less if people were running for the hills (or for their neighbor's campsite); all he ...

New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought ...

But as the planet cooled again, sloths began to bulk up. The largest ground sloths emerged during the Ice Ages. Big bodies ...

Massive Megatherium sloths once stood as large as Asian elephants, ripping foliage off treetops with prehensile tongues like ...

“They looked like grizzly bears, but five times larger ... ribs to help with buoyancy and longer snouts for eating seagrass.” Ground sloths met the challenges of these diverse environments ...

a behavior unique to sloth bears and common until the cubs reach 6 to 9 months old. Bowie will also nurse for approximately a year, but she's started eating solid foods. “Bowie is having quite ...

For example, polar bears eat mostly seals, and pandas spend 10 to 16 hours per day eating bamboo. Termites are the primary food of sloth bears, which have long noses that allow them to suck ...

Sloth bears are generally solitary and mainly eat termites and ants, as well as flowers and fruit. They also enjoy honey, occasionally climbing a tree to knock a bee honeycomb down, leading to ...