After years of bulking season, Chunk the brown bear has finally lived up to his name — and his waistline — by winning Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk who weighs over 500kg (1,200 lbs) even overcame a broken jaw to become the champion this year. During a ...

A brown bear weighing over 500kg (78st 8lb) has overcome a broken jaw to become the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk received the most votes in a competition between 12 brown bears where voters pick the one they believe "best exemplifies fatness and ...

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another possible victim was reported missing. Bears hungry because of shortages of food such as acorns -- which has been blamed on climate ...