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 ...

To that pantheon, add the King of Fat Bear Week, 480 Otis. Otis, a roughly 28-year-old Alaskan brown bear who made his home in Katmai National Park and Preserve, drew the kind of lasting fandom ...

The Bears passed for more than 3,000 yards in two of Brown's final three seasons as a coordinator. But in his eighth season as head coach, Brown said he is more than happy to defer to the running ...

From October 2-8, millions of people tune into Explore.org’s live streams overlooking Brooks River—one of the region’s most popular spots for brown bears to chow down and bulk up ahead of ...

A sow brown bear walks with two cubs through the forest at Pack Creek on Admiralty Island in Southeast Alaska on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (Nat Herz/Alaska Public ...

Chunk, a contender in this year’s Fat Bear Week celebration at Katmai National Park and Preserve. (From National Park Service) Over the last several months, brown bears have been putting on ...

Explore.org said the single elimination tournament allows for the public to vote on which bear “exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears,” and the winner of the matchup advances to the ...

has been delayed after a fatal fight broke out between two bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Each year, Katmai National Park in southern Alaska celebrates its brown bears by ...

But so far this year, he hasn’t been spotted in Katmai National Park and Preserve 480 Otis, a beloved brown bear made popular by the Explore.org bear cams of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with ...

Voting starts Wednesday in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, with viewers picking their favorite among a dozen brown bears fattened up to survive ...

It’s tough to choose which brown bear in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is looking the fattest this year. Is it 32 Chunk? Or 128 Grazer? Or maybe 151 Walker? Problem is ...