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A marmot contest started by researchers who turned to OnlyFans to help save a decades-long research project has chosen its champion in its inaugural Fat Marmot Week.
Dawn was crowned the winner of Fat Marmot Week 2026 after securing back-to-back victories in both the mass-gain and popular-vote competitions, according to the organizers of the marmot project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Julien Martin, professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Ottawa and co-leader of the marmot project, said that Dawn, the six-year-old marmot, ended up weighing about 6kg (13.2lb).
“That’s one of the heaviest animals we’ve ever measured,” Martin said. “Six kilos is really humongous for that species.”
More than 23,000 votes were cast during the Marmot Project’s first-ever marmot tournament, a competition inspired by Alaska’s popular Fat Bear Week. Dawn was crowned the contest’s champion after a week of public voting that lined up eight yellow-bellied marmots as they fattened up for the long winter ahead. Votes were cast between 24 and 29 August.
“It’s been an amazing week and all of the competitors are winners in our hearts,” reads a post by the organizers. “Thank…
Scientists who turned to OnlyFans to help save long-running research into marmots have raised more than $100,000 after harnessing the support of another, very modern, funding avenue – cryptocurrency.
The 60-year project of continuous study of marmots – stout, ground-dwelling rodents that are the largest members of the squirrel family – across the US west was facing termination following science funding cuts imposed by Donald Trump’s administration.
In desperation, researchers in June decided to put the marmots on OnlyFans, the adult-content website, to raise funds. Since then, posts on the new account, named OnlyMarms, have shown marmots scurrying across rocky landscapes and entering their burrows, rather than anything sexually explicit.
“Our goal isn’t really to sexualise the marmots,” said Daniel Blumstein, a professor at UCLA who got the idea after watching Margo’s Got Money Troubles, a TV show based on a novel about a single mother who turns to OnlyFans in order to support herself and her child. “It’s to celebrate the marmots.”
This effort has raised a modest $6,000 for the marmots but a further, much larger, funding boost for the project has recently materialized in the form of a new marmot-themed cryptocurrency. A new “meme coin” named…