Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his ...

As a biologist might say, that's a chonky boy. - National Park Service Fat Bear Week is officially underway at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. So, take a break from all of the ...

The battle of the chonk is back, and Alaska’s Fat Bear Week is officially in full swing. Hundreds of thousands of fish have returned to the salmon runs of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve to ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game receives bear calls year-round, but fall is one of their busier seasons for human-bear interactions. In September and October, bears enter hyperphagia, a period ...

From Sept. 23 to 30, voters from more than 100 countries all came together to vote on a pressing issue: who’s the fattest brown bear at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska? In a March ...

Bear fans worldwide can watch the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve bulk up on salmon and vote for their favorite starting Sept. 23 Fat Bear Week is back, accepting votes Sept. 23 through ...

In Alaska’s annual battle of heavyweights, a salmon-chomping bruin named 747 – like the jetliner – has emerged as the most fabulously fat.

America's most keenly awaited animal competition has come to its corpulent conclusion, with Chunk named the winner of this ...

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Fat Bear Week, hosted annually by the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, celebrates the peninsula’s brown bears as ...