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Two friends in Wisconsin couldn't believe their eyes when they saw an alligator in their front yard, only a 10 minute drive over the state line from Dubuque. HAZEL GREEN, Wisconsin (KWWL) -- Two friends in Wisconsin couldn't believe their eyes when they saw an alligator in their front yard, only a 10 minute drive over the state line from Dubuque. It was a scene that most people think they would only see in Florida. Instead, Sara Wagner and her friend Suzanne came across an alligator in the front yard of a Wisconsin neighborhood. At first they thought it was...

Renee Aland said she thought the lizard was an alligator when she first saw it.. A massive, 5-foot-long lizard, presumed to be an Asian water monitor, was seen scurrying around a busy road in western Florida recently. "He’s huge," Renee Aland can be heard saying in video she posted on social media of the lizard. "He’s just strutting across the road. He’s heading to the other side of the road." When her daughter, Zoey Marzonie, asked if she should get closer to the lizard, her mother quickly answered, "Nope, just stay in the car." ... she called the Florida Fish...

Authorities in Texas are investigating after human remains were found in the jaws of an alligator while officers were searching the area for a missing woman. The gruesome discovery in Houston comes less than a year after the body of a woman was found in the mouth of a gator in Florida. "Patrol officers located the remains of a woman in the jaws of an alligator in the Horsepen Bayou … while searching the area for a woman reported missing," Houston police said in a statement Wednesday. A sergeant shot and killed the alligator "to prevent it from doing more...

May 14 (UPI) -- A Florida woman out for her morning run came across an unexpected scene: a baby alligator beating the summer heat with a dip in a public fountain. Lauren Shrage said she and her dog were out for their morning run in Palm Beach Gardens when she spotted something in the water in the fountain next to the Mirabella community's entrance gate. She recorded video when she realized the object was actually a small alligator taking a dip in the cool water. "Are you having a good day?" Shrage asks the gator in the video. Shrage said...

May 8 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Florida were called to a Starbucks cafe to eject an unruly customer from the drive-through: an alligator. North Port Fire Rescue said on social media that it was "just another day on the job" when crews were called to a local Starbucks. The post said firefighters "had quite the surprise" when they discovered the cause of the commotion was a coffee-craving crocodilian at the drive-through. "After coordinating with our friends at North Port Police Department, we safely relocated our scaly friend to a nearby pond," Fire Rescue officials wrote. "Who knew our mornings could...

May 7 (UPI) -- An unusual transaction was caught on camera at a Florida credit union when an alligator wandered into the drive-through lanes. Addition Financial in Lake Mary shared a photo to social media showing the gator parked by the teller window at the credit union. "Just a normal day in Florida," the post said. "Can we even blame this little guy for wanting in on our 5 star service?" A video of the encounter features commentary from a teller. "Man, welcome to Florida where you go to work and casually see alligators just chillin' at your job," the...

Will Georgitis was attacked in South Carolina on April 15 while going for a dive in the Cooper River to look for fossils. A South Carolina diver is recovering after he miraculously survived a vicious alligator attack that left him pinned underwater. According to the Associated Press, Will Georgitis was attacked in South Carolina on April 15 after going for a scuba dive to look for fossils. He told The Post and Courier that after surfacing from his dive due to limited air, he spotted the alligator nearby in the Cooper River. "It made a beeline right at me," he...

A Florida man is being hailed as a hero after using his truck to run over an alligator that was dragging his neighbor into a pond in Collier County. Walter Rudder said he was driving his truck when he saw his friend and neighbor, Rick Fingeret, being attacked by an alligator in his neighborhood in Naples. “Driving, and we saw a man laying on the ground, waving his arms. We pulled over, and I got out of the car and saw that an alligator had him by the leg,” Rudder said. “It was dragging him into the pond.” Rudder says...

Native to the Southern US and China, alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) among the largest reptiles in the world. They look very similar to their cousins, crocodiles, which people often mistake them for. However, while crocodiles have a broad and short U-shaped snout, that of the crocodile is V-shaped and pointed. If you study them carefully, you’ll notice more differences. There are numerous exciting, unique facts to learn about this fascinating reptile. For example, did you know that alligators have two eyelids and are related to dinosaurs? We bet you didn’t. If you’re interested in learning more exciting information about alligators, there’s...

Authorities removed a 750-pound alligator from a residence in upstate New York last week, officials announced Friday. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wrote in a Facebook post that its officers seized a 750-pound alligator from an individual’s residence in Hamburg, New York on March 13. The department noted that the individual had a license for the alligator but that it had expired in 2021. The department said the individual “built an addition to his house and installed an in-ground swimming pool for his roughly 30-year-old alligator, and allegedly allowed members of the public to get into the...

A 9-foot-long alligator in Florida tore the hand off a fisherman Sunday afternoon.. The attack happened when the man was fishing in a golf course pond in Leesburg.. While the guy was on the ground, the gator got the guy in the hand, and the two rolled... Two 911 calls, including one by Priest’s wife, were released by Lake County Fire Rescue,... In the first call, the caller says, “There is an alligator attacking a man in my backyard,” while during the second call, the dispatcher asks, “Is this regarding a gator attack?” The caller reportedly responds, “Yes, he took...

Thibodaux. a 36-year-old white alligator, had 70 coins removed from his stomach An alligator at a US zoo had to undergo surgery after veterinarians discovered 70 coins in the animal's stomach. The coins were found in a rare, 36-year-old leucistic alligator, which has translucent white skin and blue eyes. Veterinarians identified "metal foreign objects in the stomach of an iconic resident" - Thibodaux. The Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska said patrons threw coins into the enclosure, which were eaten by the animal between cleanings. He has recovered from the procedure and is back in his habitat. The...

The video has accumulated more than 2.4 million views. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To survive extremely cold temperatures, some reptiles undergo brumation, which is a state of inactivity equivalent to hibernation in mammals. Now, a video showing how alligators conserve energy in freezing temperatures has caught the attention of social media users. The footage shows the reptile poking its nose through the ice of a frozen pond to avoid suffocation. The gator was spotted "frozen" inside the giant pond-shaped ice cubes at Swamp Park, a tourist attraction and alligator sanctuary near Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina, US, the BBC reported. In the...

Incredible video of an enormous alligator devouring a python in Florida's Everglades was filmed by a passing cyclist earlier this week. Alison Joslyn, who is an endurance athlete and has a passion for wildlife photography, caught the shocking sight as she was out on her bike, training. 'That's one less python to terrorize the Everglades.' she wrote after posting pictures and video online after cycling through the Shark Valley area of Everglades National Park.

The crashed plane’s wing jetted out of the alligator and python-invested swamps of the Everglades just long enough for the pilot to survive. . OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA — After nine hours waiting on the wing of his downed plane in the Florida Everglades, a pilot was rescued by Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue. He was the only person aboard. The plane was registered to a flight school in Homestead, Florida but the school called 911 after they lost contact with the pilot. The plane was a single-engine Cessna Skyhawk 172M that began experiencing trouble close to I-75 in South Broward County. A...

One of the fishermen had a message for critics of the legal harvesting.After 20 years of chasing down an elusive 13-foot-long alligator in a Southeast Texas bayou, a group of fishermen have finally caught the gargantuan reptile. Last week, Robert Hennis, his son Joel, Rev. John Benandini Jr. and Tommy Strawn pulled the 680-pound beast from the waters of Turtle Bayou, located near Anahuac in Chambers County, Texas, according to a report from Liberty County's Bluebonnet News. The harvesting took place behind Robert's home just before the end of Texas' alligator hunting season, which ran between Sept. 10 and Sept....

A massive alligator was caught Friday carrying the lifeless body of a Floridian down a canal. A witness first spotted the 14-foot reptile with its victim clenched between its jaws on a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater. “I could tell there was a body in his mouth, so I started recording,” witness JaMarcus Bullard told Spectrum Bay News 9. Bullard, who was on his way to a job interview, alerted the Largo Fire Department, which was stationed just steps away from the gory scene. Emergency personnel quickly pulled the gator from the...

The woman whose lifeless body was found clenched between a 14-foot alligator’s jaws was arrested just two months earlier for trespassing on county wetland property. Sabrina Peckham, 41, was identified by police Saturday as the victim being dragged by the beast in a canal along a residential street in Largo, a small community just four miles south of Clearwater. The homeless woman was caught by Pinellas County deputies around 6:30 a.m. on July 14 for trespassing onto county wetland just half a mile from where she was found dead Friday, court records show. Peckman ignored posted signage warning against unlaw...

A 13-foot alligator was killed by Florida officials after it was reportedly seen carrying human remains on Friday. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said officers responded to an area near 134th Avenue North and 121st Street in Ridgecrest, Florida, on Friday after getting reports of a body in the waterway, according to FOX 13. With help of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the alligator was "humanely killed." Blood could be seen near the alligator. A witness told Spectrum Bay News 9 that he could see a body in the alligator's mouth.

Thought last week’s Mississippi monster was impressive? A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online. “I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast. Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds. The lifelong Floridian...