These Alaskan brown bears are at their peak plumpness, but which contestant will win the top prize of Fat Bear 2025?

A roman mosaic shows a fighting North African Atlas bear. Jerzystrzelecki via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearly a decade ago, archaeologists found the broken skull of a bear among the ruins ...

Many folks who live near the water take it for granted, but wild animals know exactly how to make the most of their natural habitat. While humans are busy lounging on the shore or waiting for the fish ...

This image provided by the National Park Service shows cub 128 at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Sept. 13, 2025. (C. Loberg/National Park Service via AP) ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — ...

A brown bear weighing over 500kg (78st 8lb) has triumphed in Fat Bear Week 2025 despite suffering a broken jaw. Chunk, often called “the most dominant brown bear on the river,” won the competition at ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting ...

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years. The ...