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

Patty Salkeld traveled 2,000 miles to Alaska's remote national park to see the brown bears she's been voting for in the ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 is upon us, and the burliest bears of Katmai National Park have been working hard all season to chonk up for the annual competition, with the lineup of competitors dropping today, ...

The famous bears of Alaska's Katmai National Park are enjoying an abundance of salmon, and even some playtime, as they pack on pounds to prepare for the winter.

(NEXSTAR) – Fat Bear Week is off to a violent start this year. The scheduled reveal of the bracket and all the chunky contestants was pushed back by a day after one bear, No. 469, attacked and killed ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Mark your calendars! Fat Bear Week returns to Katmai National Park and PreserveOctober 2 – 8, 2024. Online voters will be able to cast their ballot for the bear they think has what ...

The bracket for 2024’s Fat Bear Week contest was revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear attack at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve on Monday delayed the unveiling. In ...

Soar above the volcanic and wildlife-rich wilderness of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the colossal, ash-covered expanse of the Valley of Ten ...