Alligators

A new employee at Orlando's Golf Gator Adventure Park discovered the hard way just how strong an alligator’s tail can be. 

A woman was attacked by an alligator Thursday morning while trimming trees near a lake in Florida, officials said.

A deputy in Polk County responded to a call about a possible alligator in a shed, but quickly realized it would be easy to subdue.

Bob, a 660-pound alligator from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park, recently visited the UF Veterinary Hospital.

It was bath time -- for the first time -- for four tiny albino alligator hatchlings that were recently welcomed to the world at a Florida park.

Police officers in Idaho say they are used to responding to calls regarding cows and horses -- but alligators? Not so much.

An experienced fisherman was on a trip with his family in the Florida Keys when he was bitten by a shark. But this isn’t the first time he’s felt a predator’s teeth on his skin.

Drivers in a South Carolina state park stopped for three alligators as they crossed the road -- and they even used the crosswalk.

Pawleys Island police reported an “unusual visitor to the beach” on July 28, in the shape of a juvenile alligator taking a stroll across the sand.

An alligator had to be rescued after becoming tangled in a soccer net at Braden River Middle School Wednesday.

Largo police said a man who was bitten on the face by an alligator Monday morning was trespassing in the park where it happened, and it's not the first time he has been arrested for trespassing in the same location.

Floridians have lived around alligators long enough to know and witness the death roll, a defensive move by the reptiles -- usually seen when they are captured by a trapper. However, for some baby gators, it was to help chow down on a fresh pile of fish scraps. 

The pounding on Susan Geshel’s front door at 6:45 a.m. last Tuesday may have surprised her, but what was even more shocking was what caused the noise, a Florida newspaper reported.

When you get a notification that someone's at your front door, this is not the sight you expect to see.

It’s not unusual to see alligators at Circle B Bar Reserve, but seeing two giant gators fighting there is enough to stop anyone in their tracks.

Down in Florida, more gators are out and about as they search for love, and seeing them on a golf course is not an unusual sight nowadays.