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Under a bill proposed this legislative session, Oklahomans would be able to raise alligators hatched from eggs in captivity without a permit.

Alligators could be raised as pets and for food under an Oklahoma bill pending before lawmakers. Senate Bill 2087, by Sen. Jonathan Wingard, R-Ada, would allow the raising of alligators hatched from ...

Occasionally, you can catch an alligator soaking up the sun on a warmer winter day, but it’s not likely that you will see one ...

The 2026 race for Florida governor continues to intensify with sharp rhetoric and big policy promises taking center stage at ...

An alligator bellow sounds kind of like a tractor trailer going over a 100-foot stretch of rumble strips at 80 miles an hour.

A world of increased heat from climate change means that “entire generations of sexually reproducing reptiles will be ...

American alligators have existed in their current form for as long as 30 million years. During winter, alligators enter a state of inactivity called brumation to survive cold temperatures. North ...

Cynthia Diekema, 61, was killed by an alligator while on a canoe ride with her husband in Florida last year D.L. Miller Funeral Home Cynthia Diekema, 61, was canoeing with her husband last year when ...

Florida law enforcement officers were met with another monster reptile this week — this time at a popular convenience store. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office had another unusual encounter with a ...