Fat Bear Week is back, and fans can once again vote for Alaska’s chubbiest bear. The March Madness-style bracket contest is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear ...

Katmai National Park & Preserve's annual Fat Bear Week competition 2025 is open for voting — pick your favorite bear to be ...

Forget March Madness — this is Fat Bear Week madness, complete with brackets, merch and cheering fans from across the globe.

Fat Bear Week, hosted by Katmai National Park in Alaska, draws bated breath from viewers every year. It’s an annual online tournament where people vote to crown the bear that’s best bulked up for ...

Voting for the annual Fat Bear Week competition kicks off on 23 September, pitting bears in Alaska against each other as they ...

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

New champ Chunk beat out a tough lineup of contenders, spoiling a potential three-peat by his longtime rival, Grazer.

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 two bears – one male, named both 469 and “Patches,” and one female, named 402 – were captured on the park’s livestream fighting each other by the Brooks River. The attack resulted in the death of ...

The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in the Katmai National Park and Preserve on live webcams and cast ballots.

The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in the Katmai National Park and Preserve on live webcams and ...