Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An enormous boar, 747 was first identified as a few years old in 2004. Related: Brown Bear Kills a Sow in NPS Livestream, ...

Patty Salkeld of Portland has been voting for years in Explore.org’s spirited Fat Bear Week competition. Starting Tuesday, she will once again join millions of viewers, glued to a live webcam at ...

Standing on the platform at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, I wanted to warn the salmon and tell them, “Look before you leap!” I lost count of how many fish ended up in the mouth of the ...

Bear fans worldwide can watch the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve bulk up on salmon and vote for their favorite starting Sept. 23 Candice Rusch Fat Bear Week is back, accepting votes Sept.

ALASKA, USA — It's time for Alaska's most adorably adipose animals to duke it out for the title of 2025's fattest bear. Fat Bear Week, the wildly popular online voting contest that has captivated ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

A towering brown bear named Chunk, distinctive for his broken jaw, has finally clinched victory in the popular Fat Bear Week contest, marking his first win after three consecutive years of narrowly ...

Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week is underway again: A time when the general public watches livestreams of feeding and fighting brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest Alaska. Though it’s a ...