After years of bulking season, Chunk the brown bear has finally lived up to his name — and his waistline — by winning Fat Bear Week 2025. Chunk who weighs over 500kg (1,200 lbs) even overcame a broken ...

Fat Bear Week is fun to watch, but packing on pounds is serious business for the bears at Katmai National Park.

People are really getting into the a competition where their votes are valued. A Brown Bear catches a fish at Katmai National Park, Alaska, in an undated photo. STOCK/Getty Images While many people ...

It's the happiest time of the year — Fat Bear Week! This year's event takes place from Sept. 23-30, and Mashable will be following all the ursine activity. Katmai National Park and Preserve’s brown ...

Test your knowledge of this week’s news, and take last week’s quiz here. Jeremy Mikula is the weekend director of platforms ...

A cat so fat it is approaching a Guinness World Record was dropped off at a Big Apple animal shelter and is now up for adoption. Barsik and all 41 pounds of him were brought to the Manhattan Animal ...

He wasn’t too keen on being roasted like a pig postmortem. The former world’s fattest man, who once tipped the scales at nearly 1,000 pounds, claims that his UK hospital ward had planned to cremate ...

The state ranked last in number of obese residents and high on nutrition and active lifestyle opportunities. Colorado is the least-fat state in America, according to a new report. The personal finance ...

The tournament was bear-y fierce. What some call "victor" others call "empress of lard." The competition to crown the fattest bear in an Alaskan national park won legions of fans online but the real ...