While Alaska's larger brown bears are attracting national attention, there have been some impressive black bears to come out ...

The winner of the 2018 Fat Bear Week was bear 409, a sow that fished Brooks falls for two-plus decades. Brown bears can ...

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who ...

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai ...

The annual Fat Bear Week is underway in Alaska as people vote on which brown bear has become the fattest in preparation of ...

Americans exhausted by the firehose of news in 2025 were being offered a brief respite yesterday, as Fat Bear Week got under ...

Forget March Madness — this is Fat Bear Week madness, complete with brackets, merch and cheering fans from across the globe.

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai National Park and ...

Americans exhausted by the firehose of news in 2025 were being offered a brief respite on Wednesday, as Fat Bear Week got ...

Bears and humans wait all year for the yearly Katmai Conservancy contest called “Fat Bear Week.” The bears prepare by eating in preparation for winter hibernation. The ...

Believe it or not, but a ‘Fat Bear Week’ exists, and it has already begun! The unusual tournament is all about choosing, voting, and making the ‘fattest bear of the year’ win. Exciting? Well, here’s ...