Fat Bear Week is officially underway. The 10th annual contest will determine 2024’s best hefty hibernator currently chowing down on salmon in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. From October 2-8 ...

Chunk, a contender in this year’s Fat Bear Week celebration at Katmai National Park and Preserve. (From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on ...

The start of the annual Fat Bear Week contest in the US was delayed this week after one of the potential contestants was killed by a rival. Both bears were in contention for the 10th anniversary ...

It was only a matter of time before Fat Bear Week turned violent. The annual online tournament pitting bears who lift heavy forks against their girthy brothers and sisters had a delayed start this ...

But so far this year, he hasn’t been spotted in Katmai National Park and Preserve 480 Otis, a beloved brown bear made popular by the Explore.org bear cams of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and ...

Voting opened Wednesday for the super-sized grizzlies in the running to win the 2024 Fat Bear Week contest, after one animal's graphic on-camera death delayed the event. Now in its 10th year ...

Fat Bear Week is off to a violent start this year. The bracket and all the chunky contestants were scheduled to be revealed on Monday morning, but the reveal was pushed back by a day after one ...

The bracket for 2024’s Fat Bear Week contest was revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear attack at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve on Monday delayed the unveiling.

Baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng may be the internet’s animal sensation du jour, but it’s time to celebrate some rotund wildlife with proven staying power: the fat bears of Alaska’s Katmai National ...

The battle to be the plumpest predator was delayed after a younger male brown bear killed an older female while hunting for salmon on Monday morning. The violent death of the matriarch known as 402 ...

The start to 2024's Fat Bear Week, which was supposed to kick-off on Monday, did not go as planned after two Alaskan grizzlies engaged in a brutal fight on the livestream in Katmai National Park ...

Before the competition even kicked off, Fat Bear Week took a gruesome turn after a fight broke out between two bears at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, competition officials said Monday.