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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion: Fat Bear Week debuted with a violent death. It's time to give the bears guns. This shocking one-incident-wave of bear-on-bear violence leads me to believe a significant change to this ...

The 2024 Fat Bear Week champion, Grazer. This image provided by the National Park Service shows bear 32 Chunk at Katmai National Park in Alaska on Sept. 19, 2024. For the second year running ...

That cub later died from its injuries, Explore.org and Katmai said. The surviving cub, called 128’s Spring Cub, was a contender in the 2024 Fat Bear Junior contest held in late September.

He was always smarter than the average bear, but now he won’t even give me a, “Hey, Boo-Boo.” I told him it doesn’t matter what he looks like, that he’s beautiful on the inside and out.

The contestants for 2024’s Fat Bear Week contest were revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear attack at Alaska’s Katmai National Park on Monday delayed the announcement.

Fat Bear Week is officially underway. The 10th annual contest will determine 2024’s best hefty hibernator currently chowing down on salmon in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.

If you’re new here, Fat Bear Week is a single-elimination tournament that pits 12 Katmai brown bears against each other in an online bracket to promote conservation awareness. As the bears ...