A 20-year-old bear nicknamed Backpack narrowly defeated Bear 910, following in the paw prints of his mother, 2019 champion ...

Fat Bear Week, hosted by Katmai National Park in Alaska, draws bated breath from viewers every year. It’s an annual online ...

His mama bear would be so proud.

Credit: Katmai National Park and Preserve/Explore.org/Cover Images Bear 910 catches a fish. A male brown bear nicknamed ...

The brown bear, described by one supporter as having both the "chonk and the badonk", will shortly enter hibernation, which ...

Backpack, an adult male brown bear known for his gentle nature, was crowned the winner of Katmai National Park and Preserve’s ...

His mother, Holly, was also a Fat Bear Week champion who raised him well. He earned his nickname because as a cub he would ...

"A fat bear is a successful bear, and Fat Bear Week celebrates the success of these wild, brown bears," Katmai National Park & Preserve said in a social media post over the weekend. According to the ...

The fat bears have landed. Fat Bear Week — a bracket-style, single-elimination tournament where 16 brown bears in Alaska’s Brooks River will compete to be this year’s fattest bear — kicks off tomorrow ...

This morning when I woke up, something had changed. The humidity had relaxed to a bearable level. The 90-degree highs and 80-degree lows we’ve been sweating through here in Kansas City had broken ...

After a week of fierce competition, Bear 910 and Backpack have emerged as finalists for the Fat Bear Week title of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.