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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...

CNN — A 79-year-old Florida man was bitten by a nearly 7-foot-long alligator Thursday morning at a golf course in Naples, according to local authorities. The man told deputies he was on a walk at the Forest Glen and Golf Course community, where he lives, shortly after 5:00 a.m. Thursday when an alligator came up and bit him in the leg, according to a Facebook post from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. “I’m bleeding. I don’t know how bad it is. It’s profuse,” the man told a 911 dispatcher, according to an audio recording of the call. “There’s a lot...

A 5-foot alligator sneaked into a Louisiana home in the middle of the night using the doggy door, according to a sheriff’s office. But the nosy reptile’s fun was over when the resident dog alerted homeowners to its presence. [Snip] Photos shared by the sheriff’s office show the alligator looking quite pleased with itself as it lays near a carpet in the home. Video shows an official with a long pole stealthily creeping toward the alligator from around a corner. The official then secures a loop around the alligator’s neck and subdues it as it thrashes wildly. The alligator was...

Police in Treasure Island, Fla., attempted to wrangle a large alligator spotted on the beach, but soon discovered the reported reptile was a sand sculpture. Photo courtesy of the Treasure Island Police Department/Facebook May 16 (UPI) -- Police in Florida responded to a beach to round up what appeared to be a large alligator but was soon discovered to be a realistic sand sculpture. "Crikey! Look at the size of that gator one of our officers tried rounding up on Treasure Island Beach last night," the Treasure Island Police Department wrote in posting a photo of the faux gator to...

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but it wasn't a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner. It was a 9-foot alligator Wednesday night ambling down a street not far from Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The urban gator whipped its tail several times when an officer first approached it, poking with an outstretched baton. A half dozen officers along with a crowd of spectators watched as lights from squad cars flashed on the blocked-off street, according to bodycam video released by...

A 21-year-old man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after police found the body of his 2-year-old son in the mouth of an alligator days after the child's mother was stabbed to death in St. Petersburg, Florida. The child, Taylen Mosley, was reported missing when authorities found his mother, Pashun Jeffery, 20, stabbed to death in her apartment on Thursday, Yolanda Fernandez, a police spokesperson, said in a press release. St. Petersburg authorities' investigation led them on Friday to Dell Holmes Park and Lake Maggiore, which lies adjacent to the park. While searching the area, detectives spotted...

Tampa police officers were called to a commercial part of town because of a disturbance, but it wasn't a public brawl or anyone behaving in a disorderly manner. It was a 9-foot alligator Wednesday night ambling down a street not far from Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The gator whipped its tail several times and hissed when an officer first approached it, poking with an outstretched baton. A half dozen officers along with a crowd of spectators watched as lights from squad cars flashed on the blocked off street, according to bodycam video released by the...