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, ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

747, the 2022 Fat Bear Week champion. (L. Law/National Park Service) The winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week is 747 Bear Force One, who weighs in at 1,400 pounds. People around the world ...

It's the happiest time of the year — Fat Bear Week! This year's event takes place from Sept. 23-30, and Mashable will be following all the ursine activity. Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown ...

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 ...

Many people couldn’t point out Katmai National Park and Preserve on a map, but they’ve probably heard of it burly residents. Each fall, Katmai hosts Fat Bear Week, a beloved celebration of the park’s ...

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 ...

It's the happiest time of the year — Fat Bear Week! This year's event takes place from Sept. 23-30, and Mashable will be following all the ursine activity. Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown ...

Many people will never get to see Katmai National Park and Preserve's iconic brown bears in person. It's not easy to get to their home on the Alaska Peninsula, and fewer than 25,000 visitors made the ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 has crowned its winner! On Tuesday, Sept. 30, voting in the 2025 Fat Bear Week competition concluded. The final match-up in the single-elimination, bracket-style contest came down ...