Fat Bear Week is a fan-driven, bracket-style competition conducted each fall as a celebration of the bears’ success in ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 ended with an unexpected champion. Bear 32, known as Chunk, began the season in rough shape with a broken jaw and visible scars. Many people doubted he would recover. But as the ...

It's Bear Week in Mississippi. You may never see a bear in person, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there.

Explore.org's Fat Bear Week contest continues into the semi-final as a vote-cheating scandal had only temporarily disrupted the fun. Officials with the organization, which heads up the competition to ...