Alison Joslyn was biking through Shark Valley in Everglades National Park when she spotted an American alligator clamped onto a large Burmese python, chewing on the snake before swimming off with it still locked in its jaws.

"I probably would have ridden right past it, but I saw movement."

Alligator mating season occurs in May and June, leading to increased activity and potential sightings. Alligators in Florida are opportunistic feeders, and known to occasionally prey on invasive Burmese pythons. Conversely, Burmese pythons have also been ...

Burmese pythons have transformed the Florida Everglades into one of the strangest predator battlegrounds on Earth, where giant invasive snakes now clash directly with native alligators . Introduced through the exotic pet trade and accelerated by escaped ...

Burmese pythons have proven to be formidable foes to large wildlife. Consequently, in habitats where the pythons live, there is truly no animal safe from being hunted. However, sometimes pythons attempt to eat prey that is too large for them to handle.