What starts as a normal moment outdoors changes instantly when a bear appears much closer than expected. There is almost no time to process what is happening before the tension spikes and every ...

Paul Finebaum compared new Kentucky football coach Will Stein to the legendary Bear Bryant earlier this season. Stein has now matched Bryant's 4-1 start, the best for a first-year Kentucky coach in 80 ...

More and more bears are coming into contact with humans in certain parts of America, but in other locations, bears frequently live in captivity as part of an illegal pet trade. Moon and Sun bears in ...

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the long-standing ...

Bear 89, known as Backpack, was crowned the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion on Tuesday, Sept. 29 after overcoming a serious leg injury as a cub and growing into a formidable adult at Alaska’s Katmai ...

Backpack has been crowned the 2026 Fat Bear Week champion, beating out a fellow offspring of a former Fat Bear Week winner. Voters were split between bear 910 and 89 Backpack in the final round of the ...

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Backpack is a fat bear on Brooks River. He's the offspring of Holly, the 2019 Fat Bear Week Champion. A bulky brown bear who became famous for hitching rides on his mama's back is the 2026 Fat Bear ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One of Colorado’s very hungry black bears was caught feasting on fresh-baked bread from a booth at the Aspen farmers market over the weekend. Videos of the ...