Fat Bear Week is back, and fans can once again vote for Alaska’s chubbiest bear. The March Madness-style bracket contest is hosted by explore.org and Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, home ...

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 ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 is upon us, and the burliest bears of Katmai National Park have been working hard all season to chonk up for the annual competition, with the lineup of competitors dropping today, ...

Fat Bear Week continues on Wednesday, so we’ve got a live stream of the brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park As they get ready for hibernation season, the bears are fishing for salmon. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place ...

Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week is underway again: A time when the general public watches livestreams of feeding and fighting brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest Alaska. Though it’s a ...

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The ...

Chunk’s weight was estimated at 1,200 pounds by contest organizers. While they do not weigh individual bears during the contest because of safety concerns, Chunk and others have had their density ...