Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after finishing in second place three previous years. The ...

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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 ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve is a natural park and wild reserve of the United States in the south of Alaska, known ...

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After a weeklong battle to the finish, this year’s Fat Bear Week victor has been crowned. Congratulations to 32 Chunk, a brown bear who weighed in at more than 1,200 pounds, who nabbed the 2025 title.

The annual contest in Alaska’s Katmai National Park honors chunky bears piling on the pounds for winter hibernation.

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

But the true champions of chubbiness are the coastal brown bears of Alaska, with some individuals ... causing others that currently eat salmon to enter dens earlier and remain inside longer, missing ...

Somewhere along the social media food highway this past summer, there was a detour to horror. Influencer after influencer held maple-shellacked sides of smoked salmon close to the camera, the thick ...

The vote is done in a March Madness-style bracket, with winners of previous rounds going up against each other until only one chonker remains. While there is a separate contest, Fat Bear Junior, for ...

Sometimes the deepest truths are revealed in the silliest photos. Here are 11 perfectly “silly” photos from this year’s ...