Pythons and alligators did not share a natural habitat until the former was introduced into the Florida Everglades in the 1970s. Now, the two are fighting a battle to be the apex predator in these ...

An alligator along the Shark Valley bike path in Everglades National Park holds onto a python that appears dead. Reporter Bill Kearney spotted the snake on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023.

She saw the snake’s head already down the alligator’s throat, and thought at first that both apex predators were dead. The python was dead, but the alligator fine and not in a hurry to swallow ...

So it must have pleased Floridians to see the gator dispatching the python, at times thrashing its rival, so thoroughly. As Sage Marshall described this week in Field & Stream: “… ...

American alligators have long been considered the top predator in the Florida Everglades. iStock "When both species are young they are more vulnerable to predation, so a hatchling python would be ...

WWLTV reported that the python Officer Aubrey wrangled measured over 12 feet in length, while the alligator came in at 4 feet and 4 inches. Aubrey told the outlet he gladly accepted his new ...

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: The 18-foot Burmese python had swallowed the large alligator whole and was euthanised in Florida before having its last meal cut out of it by amazed pathologists ...

Burmese pythons are some of the largest snake species in the world. On average, they reach about 10 to 16 feet, but the b iggest one ever found in Florida also measured 18 feet.

In fact, a Palm Beach Post reporter, part of the USA TODAY Network, once caught a python strangling an alligator to death on video. Some pythons could also kill a human and swallow it whole .

This month, when an 18-foot-python that had swallowed a 5-foot gator arrived in her lab, world-wide attention became focused on both of Moore's worlds, giving the 26-year-old an opportunity to ...

A look at what was on the python's menu, was a 5-foot dead but still fairly intact alligator. RELATED: Florida teen captures 28 Burmese pythons, gets top prize "Oh my gosh.