Polls have closed in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve, and the fattest bear of the year is... 480 Otis, a three-time champion of chonk. A dozen of the largest brown bears on Earth faced ...

In the fast riffles below Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Preserve, a large male brown bear named Otis waits patiently. His muscular bulk is very still, and his coat gleams in the summer ...

Katmai National Park and Preserve is home to some of ... In the decade since Fat Bear Week debuted, Otis became famous not ...

A bear cam in Katmai National Park looks out at brown bears hunting for salmon A lost hiker was saved in an Alaskan national park this week thanks to the vigilant viewers who were watching a bear ...

Documentary filmmaker Timothy Treadwell - a.k.a. 'Grizzly Man' - spent 13 years visiting Alaska to see and study the animals.

Grazer’s win was no small feat, as she faced off against some of the heaviest contenders at Katmai National Park. As you ...

The competition is stiff this year: Otis, a large adult bear with the record for most ... feast at Alaska's Brooks River, located in Katmai National Park's sprawling eight million acre reserve.

To research his book “Grizzly Confidential,” author Kevin Grange headed to Katmai National Park in Alaska to watch the famous ... some of the bears I’d fallen in love with on the bear cam — Otis, ...

Rangers at Katmai National Park put together a tournament-style ... Two of last year's top contenders, Bear 480 (Otis) and Bear 435 (Holly), both former champions, have not been seen on Brooks ...

435 Holly was the Fat Bear champion of 2019, but this year she was knocked out of the competition in the first round. Katmai describes ... scrawny he was in July. Otis gained so much weight ...