Pythons and alligators did not share a natural habitat until the former was introduced into the Florida Everglades in the 1970s. Now, the two are fighting a battle to be the apex predator in these ...

Instead, they are constrictors: they kill by coiling their muscular bodies tightly around their prey and suffocating it before swallowing it whole. However, fatal attacks on humans are rare.

WASHINGTON - You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those critters whole.

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous ...