From a dozen to just one: Scarred “32 Chunk” was crowned the fat bear champion of Alaska’s Brooks River, organizers announced ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week. The ...