Oct. 1 (UPI) --Alaska's Katmai National Park announced a brown bear dubbed 32 Chunk has claimed his first-ever Fat Bear Week championship title. The park said the bounteous bear bested a field of ...

Every fall, the internet swells with affection for Alaska's fattest celebrities: grizzly bears packing on the pounds before hibernation. This year, the crown (and crown-sized belly) belongs to 32 ...

After a weeklong battle to the finish, this year’s Fat Bear Week victor has been crowned. Congratulations to 32 Chunk, a brown bear who weighed in at more than 1,200 pounds, who nabbed the 2025 title.

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 ...

Fat Bear Week 2025 is officially wrapped, and a champion has been crowned. 32 Chunk is officially 2025’s fat bear champion. According to the National Park Service, the big bear beat out Bear 856 in ...

After years of coming in second place, 32 Chunk has finally been crowned the champion of Fat Bear Week. The nearly 1,200-pound brown bear has been a regular at Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National ...

In an upset for the ages, Fat Bear Week’s 2025 champion is 32 Chunk, who denied a potential “three-peat” by his longtime rival, 128 Grazer. Fat Bear Week celebrates the triumphs and tribulations of ...

Maintenance workers at Katmai National Park in Alaska spotted 2025 Fat Bear Week champion Chunk. In a video shared by Katmai Conservancy, National Park Service (NPS) maintenance crews spotted the ...