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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s also why there’s a competition this week through the Appalachian Bear Rescue called the Chubby Cubby Chonk Down. It’s a contest to see which cub will be voted the chubbiest. While the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Starting on Wednesday, the bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska will battle to see who is the burliest of them all, with fat bear fans from around the world choosing the winner online.

The chubbiest bear cub at Appalachian Bear Rescue has been announced after days of voters casting their picks in the “Chubby Cubby Chonk Down.” Congratulations to bear cub “Lemon Drop.” ...