ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Alligators are a fact of Florida life, and they’ve been here a lot longer than we have. American alligators appeared about 84 million years ago, and their ancestors evolved more ...

Visitors look at alligators at Homosassa Springs State Park, via State Library and Archives of Florida. Gators are "part of what makes Florida Florida," said author Rebecca Renner. The Pilgrims were ...

How many Florida deputies does it take to get a 600-pound alligator off the road? At least seven, a video shows.

An estimated 1.3 million alligators live throughout all 67 counties in Florida. Alligators are most commonly found in freshwater lakes and slow-moving rivers. A Southwest Florida river is considered ...

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If you want to have a genuinely “Florida” encounter with a swarm of alligators, or should we say a safe encounter, you can do just that at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park. It’s a ...