An Alaska national park's yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.

An Alaska national park’s yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber. Fat Bear Week doesn’t officially start at Katmai National Park and Preserve until Oct.

Organizers revealed the four cub contestants in this week's Fat Bear Jr. contest — with the “chubby champ charging on to face the corpulent competition” in the adult bracket.

Organizers at Katmai National Park, Alaska have revealed the four cubs competing in this year's Fat Bear Jr. contest. This year's competition includes some familiar faces: both the 2022 and 2023 junior champions are back.

In cooler months, many of us love to curl up and get cozy with our favorite comfort foods. For brown bears — also known as grizzly bears — that’s what autumn is all about! These massive mammals start prepping for their hibernation by

Every year, the biggest bears at Katmai National Park go head-to-head in an online bracket. But not before their cubs compete for the title of the fattest.

Katmai National Park will host Fat Bear Week Oct. 2-8, but the fun starts tomorrow with the wild card round. The park announced the Fat Bear Jr. contestants on Facebook this week. 909 Jr. This 3.5-year-old cub is the adopted daughter of 910.

Who is the chunkiest brown bear of them all? That’s what the National Park Service is trying to determine during its Fat Bear Week competition. Fans can cast their votes for their favorite fat bear in a March Madness-style bracket from Oct.