E ager viewers across the globe tuned in to watch brown bears fishing for salmon in Katmai National Park yesterday in the lead up to Fat Bear Week, but things took a grizzly turn when two bruins ...

Making Grazer's double victory all the sweeter is that her opponent, a 1,200 lb male bear named 32 Chunk, killed her cub back in July after it was washed over a waterfall. "This is a win for moms ...

Fans can now cast their votes for the bulkiest grizzlies in Alaska's Katmai National Park, as the 2024 Fat Bear Week contest begins. Latest U.S.

Chunky one-ton Alaskan bear ‘747’ wins Fat Bear Week competition yet again. 747 led the polls by 10,000 votes against 901, a female bear who fiercely “defends her fishing spots from other ...

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a drizzly autumn morning on the coast of British Columbia, a shadowy figure lumbers down to shore. A black bear has ...

Bear 504, another competitor, is a large female participating in her first Fat Bear Week. She joins her daughter, Bear 519, who is entering the contest on her own for the first time.

Fat Bear Week's start is delayed after a large bear kills a rival The scene was relayed by a live webcam of bears on Alaska's Brooks ... The bear, seen here fishing with her yearlings in 2019, ...