Florida alligators are known for eating many things: turtles, birds, the occasional human limb.........»»

So much for having skin in the game. The Spanish soccer team Club Deportivo Palencia has a new uniform that makes its players look like they've been flayed alive. Club officials hope the new look, which the team unveiled Thursday, will help CD Palenc.....»»

The world has a new oldest person. Meet Emma Morano of Verbania, Italy. At 116-years-old, Morano is believed to be the last documented person alive who was born in the 1800s.  Morano was said to be "pleased" upon hearing her new title, caregivers tol.....»»

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A Lincoln man says he's not dead, despite what the Social Security Administration has said.........»»

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida man was hospitalized after an alligator chomped off his hand and forearm as he sought to elude authorities by running into a lake, police said on Thursday......»»

A 9-year-old Weimaraner is lucky to be alive after a life-threatening encounter with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy. Bobo the dog was taken to a hospital in Grimsby, UK, earlier this week after coming down with a mystery ailment that caused him to stop.....»»

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida man who threw an alligator through a drive-thru window is now throwing himself on the mercy of the court.........»»

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) -- Apparently this was one alligator determined to meet the neighbors.........»»

Guess he didn't read the "no solicitors" sign. An alligator apparently tired of the pond life attempted to see how the other half lives Monday morning. The reptile may have rung the doorbell of a house in Monck's Corner, South Carolina. Gary Rogers s.....»»

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) -- Fearing Snapchat could take an ugly turn toward "snap chomp," police are warning people not to take selfies with an alligator in suburban Atlanta.........»»

Alligators may be fierce apex predators, but there's something even they have to watch out for: Other alligators.  At least one gator learned that lesson a little too late at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Florida this week when it w.....»»

A plucky pooch is lucky to be alive after leaping off a cliff in Utah. Toby, the 1-year-old English sheepdog-poodle, was on a trail ride with his owners, the McInnes family, at Gooseberry Mesa on Thursday afternoon when he spotted something and ran off.&n.....»»

A German shepherd that fell off a fishing boat in the middle of the night five weeks ago in the Pacific and believed dead was found on an island off the California coast -- bedraggled and hungry, but alive. And his owner is "beyond stoked." A German sh.....»»

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida woman is fighting to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator in her home.........»»

Who knew alligators could be so adorable? A baby gator hatches from its egg in cute video filmed at The Australian Reptile Park on the New South Wales Central Coast on Thursday. It pushes its snout through the cracked shell and slowly blinks, before .....»»

Death Valley National Park, famous for its hot, dry climate, is experiencing a rare super bloom profusion of wildflowers......»»

A 300-pound alligator made quite the splash this week in a central Florida family's swimming pool. The 9-foot beast broke through patio screen netting to take a dip at the Lakeland home on Tuesday. But it's impromptu bath came to a sudden end when ho.....»»

When geoscientist and National Geographic explorer Andrés Ruzo was growing up in Lima, Peru, his grandfather used to tell him wild stories of Spanish conquistadors, cities of gold, and an Amazonian river so hot it could boil men alive. But it .....»»

A south Florida man is lucky to be alive after dashcam video captured him speeding toward an approaching tornado, but appearing too busy yelling at other drivers to notice.  The irritable driver is seen plowing down a Pompano Beach road Tuesday morni.....»»

Alligator thrown into restaurant Alligator thrown into restaurant.....»»