Patty Salkeld traveled 2,000 miles to Alaska's remote national park to see the brown bears she's been voting for in the ...

In leaner years, the toughest bears jockey for the best fishing spots at Brooks Falls, where the salmon converge in a bottleneck and leap from the water as they fight their way upstream to spawn. This ...

The 11th annual Fat Bear Week crowned its newest champ this week, though the park service notes every bear is a winner ...

The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

Fat Bear Week began as a one-day tournament in 2014, when park rangers hosted Fat Bear Tuesday on Katmai National Park’s ...

Scarred bear '32 Chunk' wins Fat Bear Week 2025 at Katmai National Park, earning victory with over 96,000 votes ...

The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the ...

The creator of the viral bear bracket competition on this year’s 1,200-pound winner, Chunk, how bears are interacting ...

An enormous boar, 747 was first identified as a few years old in 2004. Related: Brown Bear Kills a Sow in NPS Livestream, Reminding Shocked Viewers that Alaska’s Bears Are Indeed Wild A bear can lose ...

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 ...