A brown bear weighing over 500kg (78st 8lb) has overcome a broken jaw to become the winner of Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk received the most votes in a competition between 12 brown bears in which people ...

Get your popcorn (and maybe a plate of salmon sashimi) ready: Fat Bear Week, the annual competition to crown the rotundest brown bear at Alaska’s Katmai National Park, is back for its 2025 season.

Alaskan bears will duke it out for the title of bulkiest bear around later this month when “Fat Bear Week” kicks off in the state’s Katmai National Park for the 11th year in a row. The National Park ...

After years of bulking season, Chunk the brown bear has finally lived up to his name — and his waistline — by winning Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk who weighs over 500kg (1,200 lbs) even overcame a broken ...

A hiker attacked by a wild brown bear was found dead in northern Japan on Friday, officials said, a day after the bloody encounter that reportedly saw him dragged into a forest. The hiker in his 20s ...

Currently, there are eight living species of bear around the world: Polar bear, Brown bear, Black bear, Andean (Spectacled) bear, Panda bear, Himalayan (Moon) bear, Sloth bear, Sun bear. Bears are ...

Nicknamed "Iwaobetsu's Mom," the brown bear that recently killed a hiker on Mount Rausu in Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula had been well-known among local residents for being accustomed to humans. One ...