Fat Bear Week — a time to celebrate the chunkiest of mammals as they plump up for hibernation — is set to begin Wednesday, but the ferocious drama has already begun. The annual contest hosted ...

An Alaska national park's yearly celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber. Fat Bear Week ...

Every year, the Alaskan park creates a competition that pits its chunkiest bears against each other to celebrate their success at gaining weight for the winter. After the competition kicked off on ...