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An 1854 watercolor painting of an alligator from the Cayman Islands by Jacques Burkhardt. An average adult American alligator's weight and length is 360 kg (790 lb) and 4 m (13 ft), but they sometimes grow to 4.4 m (14 ft) long and weigh over 450 kg (990 lb). [11] The largest ever recorded, found in Louisiana, measured 5.84 m (19.2 ft). [12]
The largest reported individual size was a male killed in 1890 by Edward McIlhenny [28] on Marsh Island, Louisiana, and reportedly measured at 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) in length, but no voucher specimen was available, since the American alligator was left on a muddy bank after having been measured due to having been too massive to relocate. [26]
Tommie Woodward, 28, male: Texas — After an 11-foot alligator appeared at Burkarts Marina in Orange bystanders were told to stay out of the water. Tommie Woodward mocked the alligator and jumped into the water in close proximity to the alligator and was immediately pulled underwater; his body was later found with severe trauma to the chest.
11-foot alligator was living with deer antler stuck in its mouth, SC hunters discover. Live alligator discovered in back of SUV during Florida traffic stop, officials say
(In Gatorland’s case, it was a 15-foot, blue and pink alligator jaw that met patrons at the park entrance.) Owen Godwin, the founder of Gatorland, feeds scores of alligators at the park.
Alvarez estimates that Godzilla, the alligator, is 10 feet long at a minimum, though she suspects he is closer to 12 feet long, if not a few inches longer. The video Alvarez captured that day ...
The Chinese alligator split from the American alligator about 33 million years ago [8] and likely descended from a lineage that crossed the Bering land bridge during the Neogene. The modern American alligator is well represented in the fossil record of the Pleistocene. [9] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s. [10]
In this file photo, alligator tracks are shown on the beach along the Gulf of Mexico side of St. Vincent Island. The paw prints were about 15-inches long, 18 inches with claws included.