A Florida man received a rather unwelcome house call when he was attacked by a large alligator upon opening his front door. Scott Hollingsworth reportedly told local police that he heard a noise outside his home in Daytona Beach on March 3, just after 9:40 p.m. Upon stepping outside, his leg was grabbed by something […]
FORT PIERCE, Fla.—An 85-year-old woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a senior living community on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, officials said. The woman was walking her dog on Monday afternoon beside a canal in Spanish Lakes Fairway near Fort Pierce when the nearly 11-foot (3.3-meters) gator attacked the dog, St. Lucie […]
An “emotional support” alligator was seen in a park in Philadelphia on Friday, much to the joy of onlookers. Images on social media show many Pennsylvanians in shock seeing the alligator, named “Wally”, on a leash at LOVE Park, officially known as John F Kennedy Plaza. The five-foot reptile was unfazed by the attention and […]
An 88-year-old woman was killed by an alligator after she slipped into a pond while gardening at an adult living community, authorities in South Carolina told CNN and its affiliate WTOC. Around 11:15 a.m. Monday, authorities were called to Sun City Hilton Head on reports of an alligator guarding a woman’s body near the manmade […]
VENICE, Fla.—Sheriff’s deputies captured video of a large alligator crawling through a front yard in Florida before making its way into a community lake. The video was taken Sunday morning in Venice, Florida, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Deputies estimated the gator to be about 10 feet long. The sheriff’s […]
A Florida man has died after crashing his car into an 11-foot alligator. The crash occurred after midnight on Thursday, according to a statement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. John Hopkins, 59, was driving east on County Road 672 in Lithia, about two miles west of County Road 39, when he struck an 11-foot […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Several dozen ancient alligator juniper trees have been illegally cut down at El Malpais National Monument in western New Mexico and authorities with the National Park Service are trying to find out who’s responsible. Known for their unique furrowed bark, alligator junipers grow very slowly. A seed can take up to 18 months to […]
In a dramatic encounter recorded by surveillance cameras, a Florida man chased an alligator under water and rescued his 3-month-old puppy from the jaws of death. Richard Wilbanks, 74, of Estero ran into his backyard pond, wrestled the gator above surface, and pried its jaws open to free Gunner, his Cavalier King Charles spaniel. “We […]
It was like a scene right out of Jurassic Park when two gator hunters pulled a massive alligator out of a Mississippi marsh. “I said, we have a dinosaur, this thing is huge!” John Ladner told CNN. Ladner and his friend, Derek Stiglet, were chasing a seven-foot alligator on Aug. 29 and didn’t expect to […]
A woman is dead after a run-in with an alligator on a South Carolina island, the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded May 1 to a report of an “alligator encounter” with a woman. The incident happened around 5 p.m. at a pond near Salt Cedar Lane on Kiawah Island, the sheriffs office tweeted. […]
