The world’s smallest bear is finally having its moment in the sun – thanks to a viral video that sparked a conspiracy theory on Chinese social media. Public interest in sun bears, one of Asia ...

Sun bears are the smallest bear species, measuring 4 to 5 feet long on their hind legs and weighing 60 to 150 pounds. This is only about half the size of an American black bear. Sun bears are ...

Why it's awesome: Sun bears often stand on their hind legs and can look so similar to humans they've been mistaken for people wearing costumes. Sun bears are the smallest bears in the world.

Folks, the bear is real. The viral animal is a sun bear, Helarctos malayanus, that naturally lives in the warm tropical forests of Southeast Asia, though the species is found in zoos around the ...

(CNN)A zoo in eastern China has denied suggestions that some of its bears were people dressed in costume after videos of a Malayan sun bear standing on its hind legs -- and looking uncannily human ...

The creature in question is the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), which is born with a marking around its neck that looks like a gorgeous yellow/orange necklace. YouTuber Cam Whitnall, who lives and ...

The video indeed showed an animal — the sun bear, which is the smallest bear in the world — at China's Hangzhou Zoo. "Real bear? Or man in costume?," one social media user asked, another said ...

“I am a Malayan sun bear!” By Alan Yuhas and Chang Che Sun, moon, grizzly, black, spectacled, sloth: Bears all over the world can stand, shuffle, totter and walk on two legs, though they ...

‘Forgotten’ bears under threat Native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, sun bears are the world’s smallest bear species. Adult bears stand at heights of up to 70 centimeters tall ...