Last night our photographer Katie Sokoler checked out the Crest Hardware annual pumpkin carving contest, where creative carvers created everything from Beavis and Butthead to Osama Bin Laden to Hello Kitty jack o' lanterns. A reader in attendance last night tells us: more ›

Last year, the New York Botanical Garden welcomed a 1,810 pound pumpkin from Wisconsin, and this year an even bigger pumpkin has arrived! Yesterday they unveiled a 1,818.5 pound pumpkin from Quebec, Canada, as well as three others. The 2nd runner up was a 1,807 pounder from Pennsylvania, then a 1,704 pounder from California, and another one from that state coming in at 1,693 pounds. (Based off of some quick math we did last year, one of these guys could probably make about 1,400 pumpkin pies!) They'll all be on display until the 30th, when presumably they have to go perform their duties as the Great Pumpkin, visiting pumpkin patches around the world: more ›

When we think of fall we think of a lot of things: Apples, cooler weather, leaves changing color and, of course, animals adorably playing with pumpkins. And what do you know! Just in time for the first day of fall (tomorrow), the Bronx Zoo has gone and released a new adorable video of some of its brown bears doing what they do with a batch of fresh pumpkins. Are you ready to see some really cute pumpkin eating, rolling and splashing? more ›