Backpack voted Fat Bear Week 2026 winner, beating former champ's offspring
Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the weeklong contest to see who is the chunkiest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
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Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the weeklong contest to see who is the chunkiest bear at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
A black bear was euthanized in Grand Teton National Park after "poor decisions" made by human visitors, according to park officials.
The family of an Alaska woman who was seriously injured in a bear attack said "this could have happened to anyone."
The final round of the Twinfields Ladies on the women's second-tier Step Up tour in central Japan was cancelled after a bear was spotted on the course.
A 72-year-old man killed a grizzly bear in Flathead County, Montana after it attacked him while he was out picking berries.
At least six family members who shared a meal of bear meat that one of the family members had harvested earlier were subsequently infected with brain worms, the CDC reports.
A concerning video shows a group of people in North Carolina pulling two small bear cubs from a tree in Asheville.
Ukrainian troops seized a bombed-out zoo in the midst of fighting in 2022, rescuing Yampil, an Asiatic black bear, in the nick of time.
A bear charged and attacked a man outside his home in Northern California, in a rural community on the edge of the Tahoe National Forest.
The mother grizzly bear charged at the men, investigators found, and the men fired in self-defense.
Officials ruled out a rare predatory attack, which suggests the marathon runner died following a chance bear encounter while likely running or walking.
Officials say they don't have conclusive evidence but they believe it was a grizzly bear that attacked the woman.
The children, aged 5 years old and 14 months old, were treated for bites and scratches at a local hospital and released, officials said.
The woman was bit and suffered superficial injuries as well as minor puncture wounds.
Jj4 is the same Alpine brown bear that injured a father and son out walking in the region in 2020.
In March, a man was attacked by a bear in the same region, launching a debate on the dangers posed by the animals.
Yellowstone visitors have been cautioned to "be especially alert" as bears that emerge from hibernation can be particularly aggressive in their search for food.
Instead of serving your friend – or perhaps a former one – up as bait, the National Park Service says there are several other ways to avoid a bear attack.
Bear 747 — whose enormous mass and moniker led to comparisons with Boeing's jumbo plane — emerged victorious.
The 2 a.m. attack sent the woman to a hospital with a severe laceration and multiple scratches.
