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 ...

Brown bears in the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve. There are certain scenes in the unofficial wildlife photography hall of fame—shots that both amateurs and professionals around the ...

Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week is underway again: A time when the general public watches livestreams of feeding and fighting brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest Alaska. Though it’s a ...

Fat Bear Week has been an annual tradition since 2014. There is now officially a 2025 Fat Bear Week winner. Congratulations to 32 Chunk, an over 1,200-pound brown bear! The beefiest of all bruins vied ...

Alaska is home to a large population of brown bears, and guided tours offer a safe and immersive way to observe them in their natural habitat. The best time to see brown bears in south-central Alaska ...

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 ...

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 ...

A video capturing a "magical" moment of bears waiting to catch fish along a river in southwest Alaska has amazed viewers on TikTok. The clip, captured at Brooks Camp at the Katmai National Park and ...

There are certain scenes in the unofficial wildlife photography hall of fame—shots that both amateurs and professionals around the world attempt to capture when they finally get the chance. The bison ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round Fat Bear Week has crowned its 2025 winner after running a single-elimination, ...