The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and even with a voting scandal that rocked southwest Alaska, 747 was crowned this year's champion of chonk – the bear's second title in ...

The true "titan of tonnage" has been crowned. After a record-breaking week of voting, the Katmai National Park and Preserve named the 2021 Fat Bear Week champion as none of other than the original ...

Happy Fat Bear Tuesday and welcome to the final massive match of the bracket. By 5 p.m. AKDT today we will have a 2022 Fat Bear Champion — but there can only be one. Monday began looking like a ...

Female brown bear 128 Grazer easily beat out her male finalist 32 Chonk to take the title, scoring a massive 108,321 votes compared to his 23,134. The competition, which this year ran October 4-10 ...

These bears will soon duke it out to see which tanking ... of paunch" – return to Brooks River to defend his four-time chonk champ title against other time-tested fan favorites.

And now this 70lb (31kg) spring cub, known as 806 Jr, is taking on the champions of chonk in this year's Fat Bear Week competition. The popular online event, founded in 2014 by former park ranger ...

Appalachian Bear Rescue has been working hard these past ... public to vote for the "chonkiest" of them in the Chubby Cubby Chonk Down, its fifth-annual bracket-style competition.

On Thursday, bear 747 (affectionately referred to as Jumbo Jet and King of Chonk by some fans), one of the largest bears in the 2021 competition, is up against bear 856. Aaron Judge breaks record ...

CPW said wildlife officers responded on Thursday, Sept. 19 to a home on the west side of Durango after the homeowner reported a large bear had growled and huffed at him from beneath his deck when ...

It's March Madness for fans of the lumbering brown bears in Alaska's Katmai National ... return to Brooks River to defend his four-time chonk champ title against other time-tested fan favorites.