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(Image credit: Lori Oberhofer, , National Park Service)
An American alligator fights with an invasive python in Everglades National Park. The gator appears to be winning, but pythons sometimes come out ahead in these struggles and have even eating alligators.
Reptilian struggle
(Image credit: Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service)
A Burmese python (Python molurus) peeks over the head of an alligator that holds the python's body in its mouth in Everglades National Park. Invasive pythons have clashed with gators in Florida, sometimes eating the toothy reptiles.
Chinese alligator, called Alligator sinensis, in the Yangtze River.
Florida's Biggest Gator
(Image credit: FWC)
Robert "Tres" Ammerman poses with a state-record alligator, killed in 2010. The gator measured 14 feet, 3 1/2 inches (4.4 meters) long and weighed 654 pounds (297 kilograms)..
Alligator Anatomy
(Image credit: Henrik Lauridsen and Kasper Hansen, MR Research Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark)
A CT scan reveals the skeletal anatomy of a live alligator.
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