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 ...

And which one would win in a fight? American alligators ... "Both the American alligator and the Burmese python are apex predators within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem and would encounter ...

Palm Beach Post reporter Joe Capozzi witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime fight between an alligator and a python while biking in Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee. Capozzi described the scene ...

(courtesy Bill Kearney) But what really happened? Had there been a furious fight, the python wrapping around the gator’s heavy torso and the gator thrashing the snake until it went limp ...

“That’s one less python to terrorize the Everglades ... So when she saw the alligator-snake fight, she “couldn’t help but think, ‘Score one for the good guys!'” ...

“That’s one less python to terrorize the Everglades ... So when she saw the alligator-snake fight, she “couldn’t help but think, ‘Score one for the good guys!'” ...

That fight, which lasted an estimated 24 hours, ended in an apparent draw, with both swimming off and vanishing. Earlier this year, Snow documented a gator killing and consuming a python.

“That’s one less python to terrorize the Everglades ... So when she saw the alligator-snake fight, she “couldn’t help but think, ‘Score one for the good guys!'” ...