After years of bulking season, Chunk the brown bear has finally lived up to his name — and his waistline — by winning Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk who weighs over 500kg (1,200 lbs) even overcame a broken ...

It’s the battle of the bears in Alaska. 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 ...

It's time for everyone's favorite bracket battle — Fat Bear Week. The annual online contest returns to Katmai National Park in Alaska as massive brown bears gorge, bulk up and compete for the internet ...

ALASKA, USA — The bears are back, and they are absolutely massive. Alaska's Brooks River is once again hosting nature's most delightfully chunky competition as Fat Bear Week returns for its 11th year ...

Some of the largest brown bears reside at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska, according to explore.org. During Fat Bear Week, the public can celebrate the success of brown bears gaining ...

The bears are back, bigger and fatter than ever, ready to battle for the title of the fattest of them all. Voting for the annual Fat Bear Week competition kicks off on 23 September, pitting bears in ...

The 5.5- to 6-million-year-old remains were recovered during fieldwork in Stavropol Krai, Lopatkin told Izvestia. Size estimates put the bear in the range of the largest modern brown bears, exceeding ...

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 ...

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 popular online voting ...

A JINX IS a nasty thing for a man to have dogging him when he’s out for big game. In 1941, while hunting on Admiralty and ...