On a special episode (first released on June 11, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: How do alligators help with carbon sequestration? Christopher Murray, Associate Professor at Southeastern Louisiana ...

New research from the University of Georgia's Odum School of Ecology and Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant suggests there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia and South Carolina waters.

From the extreme heat to the blistering cold (yes, even in the Sunshine State), alligators, like humans, have to adapt. Alligators are present in all 67 Florida counties. Underwater alligators deal ...

An FWC report reveals more details of the alligator attack in Lake Wales on May 6 that killed a a Michigan woman.

It took 15 minutes for the group of hunters to land the giant reptile Joe Wyrick Mississippi hunters caught a 13-foot, nearly 700-pound alligator at Ross Barnett Reservoir Mississippian Joe Wyrick ...

In the days after the death of 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez, who was killed by alligators after he went missing from his Village L'est home, Louisiana wildlife officials are working to clear the area of ...

When news broke that the first detainees arrived at President Trump’s newest detention facility in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” there were significant and vastly polarized ...

A new UGA study found smaller alligators and hatchlings could inherit high levels of mercury from their mothers. Credit: Chamberlain Smith/UGA A new UGA study found smaller alligators and hatchlings ...