Blind 750-pound alligator named Albert seized from New York home
Self-proclaimed owner Tony Cavallaro said he treated his pet alligator Albert "than most people take care of their kids."
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Self-proclaimed owner Tony Cavallaro said he treated his pet alligator Albert "than most people take care of their kids."
Florida officials said the gator was 9 feet, 3 inches long and caused a "severe animal bite" to the victim.
The coins were found during a routine examination of the animal. All were successfully removed.
An 85-year-old woman was killed in Florida last year when an alligator emerged from a lake in her retirement community and attacked her and her dog.
The gator was found with his heart "beating three beats per minute."
If you thought alligators were terrifying enough, then you might want to stop reading.
An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park.
Doctors then cleared out all the mud and bacteria from the wound.
The attacks happened in Alexander Springs in Lake County. After one incident, officials removed a 9-foot male alligator from the water.
An alligator was spotted at Hillsboro Beach Monday
The 13-foot alligator was "humanely killed," and the victim's remains were recovered by a dive team from a canal, authorities said.
A Florida reptile park has taken in an alligator that lost its nose and upper jaw to a fight or boat propeller.
Lost its nose and upper jaw in a fight or to a boat propeller
The animal was taken on Saturday to Gatorland
The alligator was spotted at Wilson's Landing Park in Sanford, Florida but it got away.
A Central Florida hunting guide said he and his team caught what could be the second-heaviest alligator ever harvested in the state.
Florida's Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state.
"That's a real dinosaur," one person said of the gator's record-breaking size.
Brooke, a 376-pound gator, was exhibiting a series of symptoms, including intermittent head-rolling in his lagoon.
A central Florida spring was closed to the public after the swimmer was bitten
A 79-year-old Naples man was bitten by a nearly 7-foot-long alligator Thursday morning at a golf course, according to local authorities.
The incident comes less than a year after another woman was fatally attacked by an alligator in Beaufort County.
A couple who recently relocated from Arizona to Louisiana got quite the Cajun welcome when they awoke to an uninvited late-night guest inside their home -- an alligator.
"I can walk. I just got bit by a gator," a 911 caller said.
The 23-year-old man was attacked early Sunday behind a bar in Port Charlotte
