Twelve black bear cubs have been successfully rehabilitated and released back to the wild, state officials confirmed.

Animal control said an injured bear is stealing pumpkins from homes. Such behavior is typical, however, as bears ...

America's most keenly awaited animal competition has come to its corpulent conclusion, with Chunk named the winner of this year's Fat Bear Week. The enormous beast chewed his way through thousands of ...

Every fall, the internet swells with affection for Alaska's fattest celebrities: grizzly bears packing on the pounds before hibernation. This year, the crown (and crown-sized belly) belongs to 32 ...

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“The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the former ranger who helped invent the popular contest. The Fat Bear Week ...

The bracket for Fat Bear Week 2025 has been revealed, and 12 bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are looking for votes from all over the world — but only one will be crowned the ...

Brown bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska compete in the annual Fat Bear Week contest after a summer of eating salmon. The public votes online in a single-elimination tournament for the bear they ...

The chunkiest challenge of the year is here — Fat Bear Week. Fat Bear Week began on Sept. 23. Each year, the burly bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska capture global attention in a ...

KING SALMON, Alaska – Something chonky this way comes as Tuesday begins the annual Fat Bear Week, a competition to see which bears in Katmai National Park have packed on the most pounds ahead of their ...