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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Fat Bear Week competition has grown exponentially since it started as a Facebook vote in 2014. “It's positive, it's a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest ...

A mother bear and two cubs in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. David Tipling / Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images With winter drawing near, it’s time for the ...

It's time for everyone's favorite bracket battle — Fat Bear Week. The annual online contest returns to Katmai National Park in Alaska as massive brown bears gorge, bulk up and compete for the internet ...

It's that time of year again in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve: Fat Bear Week is returning to celebrate the park's brown bears as they bulk up for winter. From Sept. 23 through Sept. 30, ...

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 by ...

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After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fat Bear Week is back at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The March Madness-style bracket competition pits some of Katmai ...

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 ...