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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three ...

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 ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted for six hours on Wednesday HONOLULU -- Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater at semiregular intervals since late last year, delighting ...

Fat Bear 2025 named the winning bear after voting completed on Sept. 30. Bears Chunk and 856 made the final round Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

KILAUEA, Hawai'i (Island News) -- A new eruption, called Episode 34, began at Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park at 12:53 a.m. on Oct. 1. Lava fountains started the night before, ...

Bear 32, nicknamed Chunk, was crowned the 2025 Fat Bear Week champion. T Carmack, Katmai National Park and Preserve via Flickr under Public Domain A bear weighing more than 1,000 pounds, nicknamed ...

Brown bears in the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve. There are certain scenes in the unofficial wildlife photography hall of fame—shots that both amateurs and professionals around the ...

“The bears are extremely fat this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing how people react to how fat they are,” says the former ranger who helped invent the popular contest. The Fat Bear Week ...

Fat Bear Week is an annual competition where fans vote for the fattest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve. The event runs from Sept. 23 to Sept. 30, with daily voting on the explore.org website ...