This free Zoom program, featuring Interpretive Ranger Keith Moore with Katmai National Park, will take place at 7 p.m. Oct.

We have a winner in Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest. Grazer won the popular vote Tuesday, defeating a bear named Chunk.

The annual Fat Bear Week honors bears that have sufficiently bulked up in the months before entering hibernation.

The winner of Fat Bear Week 2024 is, for the first time in the contest's history, a mama bear who was actively caring for a ...

Grazer, a mother on her third litter, defeated her close opponent Chunk by over 40,000 votes, on the final day of the week-long tournament in which people cast their votes online for their choice of ...

The brown bears truly ate this year, and we mean they ate a lot of salmon at Katmai National Park and Preserve, but only one ...

In an exciting and personal rematch from last year, 128 Grazer and 32 Chunk faced off again in the final round of 2024’s Fat ...

Brown bears in Alaska are packing on the pounds to compete in the annual Fat Bear Week. The competition, a collaboration between Katmai and the National Park Service, is a way for people to learn ...

Fat Bear Week doesn't officially start at Katmai National Park and Preserve until Oct. 2, when fans can begin voting online for their favorite ursine behemoths in tournament-style brackets.

An Alaska national park’s yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber. In this ...