Fat Bear Week has returned, but the grisly nature of bears has brought it to a pause. A male bear, with the identification number 469 and referred to as "Patches," killed a female bear ...

Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week contest got off to a delayed start because a female participant known as Bear 402, was killed by a male during a livestreamed fight. Cameras set up in the park to ...

128 Grazer 2023 Fat Bear Week champion. Highly defensive mother who delivered two first year cubs in 2024. In July, one of Grazer's cubs died after injured by 32 Chunk. Grazer showed courage when ...

Fat Bear Week is back, and this year's contestants are a giant, fuzzy dream for the competition's 10th anniversary. The initial Monday announcement was postponed until Tuesday following a gruesome ...

Bear 747 at Katmai National Park in Alaska on September 26, 2024. Alaska's Fat Bear Week is underway after one bear's death delayed the contest. E. Johnston/National Park Service via AP Match Number 1 ...

We’re big fans of Fat Bear Week, the lighthearted annual bracket where fans of fat bears get to vote on the fattest of them all, here at The A.V. Club.

Voting in Katmai National Park's famed Fat Bear Week was underway Wednesday after a bear killed one of this year's competitors and delayed the bracket reveal by a day.

Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest winner finishes ahead of the bear that killed her cub With the win, she avenges the death of her cub at the hands of the 1,200-pound male behemoth over the summer in ...

Fat Bear Week is off to a violent start this year. The bracket and all the chunky contestants were scheduled to be revealed on Monday morning, but the reveal was pushed back by a day after one ...

Her other surviving cub from her third litter placed second two weeks ago in the Fat Bear Junior contest. Chunk is perhaps the largest bear on the river, with narrow-set eyes, dark brown fur and a ...

In this photo provided by the National Park Service is Grazer, the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Contest, at Katmai National Park, Alaska on Sept. 14, 2023. (F. Jimenez/National Park Service via AP) ...

Before the competition even kicked off, Fat Bear Week took a gruesome turn after a fight broke out between two bears at Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, competition officials said ...