Baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng may be the internet’s animal sensation du jour, but it’s time to celebrate some rotund wildlife with proven staying power: the fat bears of Alaska’s Katmai National ...

The National Park Service on Monday announced that voting will be open for the tenth annual Fat Bear Week from Oct. 2 to 8 on fatbearweek.org. The March Madness-style bracket competition will ...

Fat Bear Week is a bracket-style competition that has grown in popularity since its inception in 2014. Fans vote online in daily head-to-head matchups between 12 bears, selecting the bear they ...

This year, four cubs who fattened up over the summer will face off in a bracket, with voting beginning ... a first-year cub of last year’s Fat Bear Week winner, 128 Grazer.

Brown bears hunt for salmon in the Brooks River at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. A bear at the park killed another bear (not the ones pictured) in a fight on livestream cameras ...

“This was supposed to be our Fat Bear Week bracket reveal. But earlier today, one bear killed another bear. We thought, ‘Okay, we can’t go ahead with our bracket reveal without addressing this ...

It was only a matter of time before Fat Bear Week turned violent. The annual online tournament pitting bears who lift heavy forks against their girthy brothers and sisters had a delayed start this ...

The bracket this year features 12 bears ... Bear 909 Jr., who last week won the Fat Bear Junior competition for the second time, will face Bear 519, a young female in the first round.