Chunk and Grazer duked it out in the semifinal, but only one brown bear in Katmai National Park could reign supreme.

Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his ...

As one of the largest bears that resides along Brooks River at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, 32 Chunk was ...

Voters rewarded the burly bear for his persistence — and his ability to adapt after suffering a broken jaw in a brawl last ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 has crowned its winner! The competition uses online votes from fans around the world to determine which ...

There's a new Fat Bear Week winner. Fat Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of the annual park contest on Tuesday ...

The bracket for Fat Bear Week 2025 has been revealed, and 12 bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska are looking ...

All the bears in this competition live and feast in the Brooks River in Alaska. National park workers who organize the annual ...

32 Chunk was named the champion over his portly rival 856, raking in the majority of the public's votes — 96,362 to 63,729.

The most gripping week of the bear calendar has arrived. The Fat Bear Week is an annual online competition hosted by Katmai ...

Several past winners are in the running. First, there's Chunck. According to the captions, "32 Chunck, a previous winner, is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...