Californians may feel especially encouraged to see these brown bears thrive considering the state’s history with the California grizzly bear, the subspecies of brown bear that went extinct soon ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Millions of people worldwide tuned in for a remote Alaska national park’s “Fat Bear Week” celebration ...

In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer. Grazer beat Chunk ...

For each match-up, contestants vote for the bear they believe "best exemplifies fatness and success in brown bears," officials wrote on the contest website. The bear with the most votes advances ...

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 ...

This is where Grazer’s cub died after it slipped over the waterfall and was killed by Chunk, perhaps the most dominant brown bear on the river. Grazer fought Chunk in an effort to save the cub ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual park competition that "celebrates the healthy appetites of brown bears" and "the nourishing ecosystem in which the bears thrive," according to NPS. The annual event ...

The Alaska national park puts on Fat Bear Week annually as a way to raise awareness about the 2,200-pound brown bears that live in the park. Every year, they gorge themselves on salmon ...

An Alaskan deer hunter was mauled and bitten on the head by a brown bear Sunday during a blacktail hunt on Admiralty Island. Amanda Compton, 44, walked away from the attack with a small piece of the ...

Aside from her thick beauty, a mother brown bear's vengeance may have won her the title for this year's Fat Bear Week contest. Bear 128 Grazer, whose cub was killed by her opponent in July, was ...