Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Golfers at a Florida course expect sand traps, water hazards and perhaps even an alligator. What they probably didn't expect was a ...

A Florida congressman has proposed a bill to review the American alligator's "threatened" status. The review follows five alligator attacks this summer, one of which was fatal. Alligators retain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Florida's long coexistence with alligators comes with a sobering statistic: State records show nearly 500 ...

An angler suggested the alligator may have been habituated to humans by being fed. A 2023 University of Florida study found that most alligator attacks were preceded by some level of human inattention ...

The alligator attack that killed a fisherman at a park in Winter Garden last week is a terrible reminder of two fatal alligator attacks in Volusia County since 1997: One took the life of a child ...