A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears ...

Learn about the AI program that's recognizing individual brown bears in Alaska by their faces and poses.

The curious cub just wanted to help!

Alaskan bears will duke it out for the title of bulkiest bear around later this month when “Fat Bear Week” kicks off in the state’s Katmai National Park for the 11th year in a row. The National Park ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after narrowly finishing in second place ...

ALASKA, USA — The bears are back, and they are absolutely massive. Alaska's Brooks River is once again hosting nature's most delightfully chunky competition as Fat Bear Week returns for its 11th year ...

Two hikers were hospitalized after fighting off a brown bear on an Alaskan trail, officials said Wednesday. The two people, who were not named by authorities, were about a quarter-mile up the Exit ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown bears and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in ...

Katmai National Park’s annual Fat Bear Week is underway again: A time when the general public watches livestreams of feeding and fighting brown bears at Brooks Falls in southwest Alaska. Though it’s a ...

PoseSwin is an AI capable of identifying wild bears one by one despite significant physical transformation. © 2026 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly ...