Many folks who live near the water take it for granted, but wild animals know exactly how to make the most of their natural habitat. While humans are busy lounging on the shore or waiting for the fish ...

Bear 32 Chunk was crowned the 2025 champion of Fat Bear Week. Chunk defeated runner-up Bear 856 with over 96,000 votes. The annual contest celebrates the survival of brown bears at Katmai National ...

Fat Bear Week has been an annual tradition since 2014. There is now officially a 2025 Fat Bear Week winner. Congratulations to 32 Chunk, an over 1,200-pound brown bear! The beefiest of all bruins vied ...

Animals at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago are having an absolute blast as snow covers their enclosures. The zoo shared the most adorable footage of both a brown bear and a bison enjoying the freezing ...

Fat Bear Week, when people get to pick their favorite Alaskan brown bear bulking up for hibernation, is coming early this year. The annual online competition that normally starts in early October will ...

Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai National Park and Preserve's bulkiest and most beloved brown bears against ...

A bear has returned to the historic estate of Turlough Park in Castlebar - more than 200 years after the infamous landlord, ‘Fighting Fitzgerald’, kept one here as a pet. The brown bear, a female, is ...