Fat Bear Week champions over the years ... in brown bears," officials wrote on the contest website. Perhaps the 2024 winner will mate, produce another cub and hit a trifecta next year.

The injured cub died later, and the surviving cub competed in Fat Bear Junior 2024 ... another Fat Bear Week newbie, beat Bear #909, the mother of the junior contest's winner.

The 2022 edition of Fat Bear Week was unlike any other, and even with a voting scandal, 747 was crowned this year's champion of chonk – the bear's second title in three years. The weeklong ...

But only one can take the crown and be named the 2024 Fat Bear Week Champion ... and a handful have their own nicknames. In 2022, the winner of Fat Bear Week was Bear 747 (Bear Force One ...

They don’t grow them this big everywhere, but Pennsylvania has its share of giant bears. The Pennsylvania Game Commission released its 2024 bear harvest totals recently. Consider the Venango County ...

"The contest is similar to March Madness, but for Wisconsin's native birds," according to a news release from the Natural Resources Foundation that announced the winner. Spherical White-throated ...

Voting started Wednesday in the annual Fat ... 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. The ...