A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, minutes after surviving an apparent ...

Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials said a life jacket did much more than prevent a woman from drowning during an alligator ...

Some animals have a fighting chance after being eaten. Discover 5 animals that can fight out of snakes' stomachs.

Early on Memorial Day, a Florida man was bitten by an alligator as he swam across a lake. Bleeding from a bite to his right arm but undeterred, he climbed out, grabbed a pair of garden shears and ...

An investigative report on an alligator attack in March claimed that the attack was cut short when a man stuck his fingers ...

A gator was hungry for mangoes during a hot day in South Florida.During Memorial Day weekend in Weston, the reptile<a ...

In the wild, it’s not always about how fast or big an animal is. Sometimes, what really matters is how strong its bite is. An ...

American alligator basking in the sun by the waters edge ... jaguars often dispatch victims with a single bite to the skull, frequently between the ears, puncturing the brain. Their specialized skull ...

American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) exert a bite force of approximately 2,125 PSI (9,450 ... Recent research suggests that Megalodon’s bite was powerful enough to crush the skulls of ...

PETERSBURG, Fla. — A new study from the University of Florida claims that risky human behavior, not aggression by alligators, is the leading cause of alligator bites. The study, done in ...

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 ...