Sloth bears are the world's deadliest bear. As their habitat shrinks, India's forest communities are finding ways to co-exist with them.

"If you work with sloths you live with their gas, everywhere on X-rays, interfering with ultrasounds, it can actually be a huge concern," Bräutigam said. "They're so gassy that they even use their ...

TENKASI: A sloth bear attacked three women farm workers at a lemon plantation in Puliyangudi on Thursday. Two of them were admitted to the Puliyangudi GH with minor injuries, and the other woman, who ...

A sloth scientist, her tree-climbing BFF, and their dog work to save Costa Rica’s sloth populations in groundbreaking ways, all while capturing rarely seen wild sloth behaviors and reimagining ...

Three farm workers, all women, were injured — one of them seriously — in a sloth bear attack at a farm near the Western Ghats ...

"The sloth's popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day has been called into question," Helen Briggs of BBC News reports. "Rather than snoozing for more than 16 hours a day ...

Baby sloths occasionally fall out of trees, and without human intervention, they often are never reunited with their moms. But that's not the case for this sloth and her baby.

After we left the sloth park, just 10 minutes down the road, our bus suddenly stopped. I could feel a buzz of curiosity in the air. I stood up to see what was going on, and that’s when I saw my ...

One of the ways that we're collecting data on wild sloths is through our Urban Sloth Project. We missed her. We have about 25 sloths with collars on at the moment. Monitoring them is a lot of work.