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

The fattest and floofiest bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park are competing as part of the popular Fat Bear Week, an annual head-to-head competition aimed at crowning a champion brown bear. And the ...

A 1,400-pound brown bear? Here's a look at the fall feeding habits — and giant proportions — of Katmai brown bears ...

A chunky contender named Chunk, officially known as bear 32, has claimed victory in this year’s Fat Bear Week, an annual ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual tradition run by the Katmai National Park in Alaska alongside media organization Explore.

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 ...

Fat Bear Week. The annual contest returns to Katmai National Park as massive brown bears gorge, bulk up and compete for the ...

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 most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. This event, which began in 2014 as a ...

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

The salmon are flying, the bears are bulking, and Katmai National Park in Alaska is once again asking the world to pick a ...