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A military veteran was captured on video trapping an alligator inside a garbage pail outside a Florida home Tuesday morning.

A man in Orlando, Fla., took matters into his own hands when a large alligator was found lounging in front of his house.

The remains found in an alligator’s stomach have been positively identified as those of a man who was attacked and killed in Hurricane Ida floodwaters.

The incident happened at a child’s birthday celebration at the Scales & Tails Utah reptile center.

A visitor to a Utah reptile center leapt in to assist an employee who was bit and dragged into an enclosure by an alligator.

Police near Daytona Beach arrested a man who they say stole an alligator from a tourist attraction and began tossing the animal to “teach it a lesson.” NBC affiliate WESH-TV reports 32-year-old William Hodge, who lives in Southwest Florida, was arrested Thursday morning while walking on a street in Daytona Beach Shores. Witnesses say Hodge swung the reptile by the…

A nearly 8-foot alligator was captured by a father and son in Maryland at Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point.

There were rumors of a gator near the Bay as far back as 2016. One father and son duo decided to take matters into their own hands. News 4’s Pat Collins spoke with the Lusby man about the Father’s Day hunt he won’t soon forget.

A 25-year-old Florida man is recovering after being attacked by an alligator while he was searching for megalodon shark teeth in the Myakka River last weekend.

A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded swamp scum for a sandy Padre Island beach in South Texas.

A cow and an alligator caused traffic delays on Wednesday during separate incidents in which the animals took themselves for a spin on Houston area roadways.

Brenda Stelzer was riding her bike through a nature preserve in Naples, Florida, when she saw something blocking the path.

It’s not every day you see an alligator and a bull shark swimming in unison, but that’s exactly what Florida resident Gray Vinson witnessed while visiting Indian River Lagoon Sunday, he told NBC 6. The Vero Beach native, who grew up swimming and boating around the river, said he filmed the rare moment from a walking bridge. “Bull sharks...

A Florida woman said she thought she was going to have a heart attack when she opened her garage door and found an alligator hissing at her.

A man was caught on camera jumping into a pond to save his small dog from an alligator’s grip near Estero, Florida.

Golfers in Naples, Florida, were doing a double-take after a monster gator wandered onto the green, WBBH reports.

The woman killed in a fatal alligator attack in South Carolina was visiting a client for an in-home nail appointment when curiosity drew her to a nearby pond where she spotted the animal, according to a witness account in a sheriff’s report released Tuesday.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California law banning the import and sale of alligator and crocodile products. U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller also scheduled an April 24 hearing on Louisiana’s request for a longer-lasting order called a preliminary injunction. “The temporary restraining order is the first step in protecting Louisiana’s alligator industry, which creates jobs, supports...

Louisiana is suing the state of California over its decision to ban the import and sale of alligator products, saying the ban will hurt an important Louisiana industry and ultimately could hurt the state’s wetlands. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Louisiana said the economy surrounding alligators has played a key role in bringing back the American alligator population and is an...