At the hospital, doctors found that his skull had been crushed by the alligator's bite. LaVerde underwent a six-hour surgery and made it out alive. But part of his skull is still missing ...

Officials said witnesses reported seeing a man swimming in a lake near alligators before police arrived on scene.

The authorities say that Timothy Schulz, 42, of Mulberry, Fla., swam across an alligator-filled lake before a violent ...

There, he underwent six hours of surgery to repair the damage from an alligator biting his head, including a fractured skull, broken jaw and nerve damage. After more than a week of recovery ...

A Florida firefighter is recovering in a hospital a week after he was bitten on the face by an alligator while swimming ... to repair the damage to his skull and jaw, after which he was ...

WE’RE TOLD THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE FIRST RANKING SYSTEM TO CATEGORIZE HUMAN BEHAVIOR IMMEDIATELY BEFORE AN ALLIGATOR ENCOUNTER, AND SCIENTISTS SAY THE DATA SHOWS ALLIGATORS DON’T WANT TO BITE ...

Since 1948, when officials began tracking alligator bites involving people in Florida, there have been 487 unprovoked bites through 2024, according to FWC data. Of those, 339 were major bites and ...

Risky human behavior, not aggression by alligators, is the leading cause of alligator bites. A recent study is the first to develop a ranking system that categorizes human actions immediately before ...