A Florida woman heard a rattle at her door and, thinking it was someone trying to enter the wrong house, got up to shoo them away. Instead, Mary Hollenback was confronted by an 8ft alligator lumbering through her home. The enormous reptile was so strong it punched open the front door in Venice, south of […]
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Florida Everglades tour operator is arrested after boat flips over and dumps nine passengers into alligator-infested waters
An airboat overturned during a tour through the Florida Everglades, launching all ten people on board into the alligator-infested waters below. A group from Coopertown Airboats was heading through the Everglades National Park on Friday afternoon when the boat operator spotted an alligator nearby. Wanting to give tourists a closer look, he turned abruptly, sending […]
A Tennessee fisherman reeled in a big one. It turned out to be an alligator
MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee (AP) – A fisherman at a lake in northeast Tennessee caught a surprise at the end of his line when he pulled up a 3- to 4-foot long alligator. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency said their Union County wildlife officer Rick Roberts got a call from the angler on Monday describing the unusual […]
Florida man has HAND bitten off by nine-ft alligator while fishing in a golf course pond as he tried to unhook his catch only for the reptile to take a snap
A Florida man had his hand bitten off by a massive alligator while he was fishing in a golf course pond. The unidentified man was attacked by the monstrous gator on Sunday afternoon at a pond in Pennbrooke Fairways, a golf course and residential community in the Leesburg, about an hour outside of Orlando. The […]
Terrifying moment alligator emerges from murky water to clamp down on shark tooth collector’s HEAD as he was snorkeling for huge megalodon fossils
Terrifying GoPro footage captured the moment an alligator clamped down on the head of a shark tooth collector as he waded through a Florida river. Jeff Heim, a collector specializing in ancient megalodon teeth, recalled his scrape with death in 2021 this week, saying the gator bit him ‘twice before I knew it’. ‘It was […]
Florida woman is left bloodied and bruised after being bitten by ALLIGATOR while trying to protect her dog on New Year’s Eve: ‘I’m glad he didn’t close his mouth’
A Florida woman was left bloodied and bruised after battling an alligator to protect her dog on New Year’s Eve. The reptile launched at Gwen Cash’s Rottweiler, Maximus, moments after the pair stepped outside their home near Holly Lake in Pembroke Pines. Cash said: ‘He kind of turned as if he was going for my […]
Heart-stopping moment North Carolina scientist Fred Boyce almost loses an arm while trying to wrestle 250lb gator with a TOWEL goes viral again – as social media jokes man looks like BIDEN
The heart-stopping moment a ginormous gator took a bite out of an elderly man’s arm after he tried to wrestle it with a towel has gone viral on social media. DailyMail.com identified the man as Fred Boyce, a seasoned herpetologist from North Carolina, when the clip was first circulated in May 2012. But his encounter […]
Massive 12ft, 600lb alligator is captured outside a Florida mall: Footage shows moment SIX people haul the beast onto a truck as it’s moved to a safer area
A huge 12-foot, 600-pound alligator was found and captured outside a Florida mall on Thursday, leaving local holiday shoppers shocked. Deputies removed the massive beast from the entrance of Coconut Point Mall in Estero, Florida, on Thursday afternoon. A video captured at least half a dozen officers lifting the massive gator and carrying it into […]