Big and brooding, the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) rules over the swamps and marshlands of the Southeastern United States as the largest native reptile in North America. So ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, triggering the extinction of the dinosaurs, the largest reptiles to ever walk the planet. While those giants disappeared, some of their ...

Kat Daley is a 22-year-old wildlife advocate who graduated this spring from the Louisiana school with a degree in general ...

Mississippi is home to thousands of alligators. Learn where they live. What should you do if you encounter one?

In the muddy depths of a Florida enclosure, a massive American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) named Split Jaw ...

Louisiana’s wild alligator population has soared from less than 100,000 to more than 3 million since the state launched a ...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — Wild Florida, an airboat, gator and drive-thru safari adventure park in the center of the state, welcomed not one, but two baby albino alligators in July. According to a press ...

Bonafide Louisiana residents will soon be allowed to hunt alligators for sport, but it won’t be the open-season, no-limits culling of the swamps people might imagine.