Alligator-human incidents should be considered encounters, or "bites," not attacks, the journal Human-Wildlife Interactions ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, South Carolina -- A woman who often walked her dog near a golf course lagoon across the street from her vacation home was killed Monday by an alligator that dragged her into the ...

NEW ORLEANS — Editor's Note: The story has been updated to reflect that the alligator was not trapped in Lacombe as previously reported to WWL by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office. Human remains ...

A Florida woman saved her puppy from the jaws of a 5-foot alligator by pounding the beast in the eye until it let go. Danie Wright was walking 4-month-old Dax behind her home in Land O’ Lakes, about ...