Alligator

An alligator amusement park near Orlando, Florida, fittingly called Gatorland, has announced its greatest new attraction: the 'rarest alligator in the world', a solid white hatchling with piercing crystal blue eyes.The ghostly gator might look like an albino to the average tourist, but in reality, it is an even rarer form of reptile known as a leucistic alligator.Unlike albinism, which is marked by a lack of the pigment melanin, leucism is caused by defects in specific pigment-producing cells.This means that leucistic…

In 2005, the residents of Ban Si Lam, a village in northeastern Thailand, dug out their local pond. Amid the topsoil they found some pottery, ceramics, and—to their surprise—an alligator skull.Finding Uhura’s Confidence in Strange New Worlds | io9 InterviewResearchers initially identified the skull as that of Alligator sinensis, the critically endangered Chinese alligator. But today, a different team of researchers posit that the skull is around 200,000 years oldand belongs to an extinct species of alligator. The team’s…

In a press release sent on Thursday, May 25th, 2023, Marvel Comics announced Infinity Comic series Alligator Loki by Alyssa Wong, Bob Quinn, and Pete Pantazis and edited by Kat Gregorowicz will receive a print release. Scheduled to arrive at your Local Comic Shop on September 13th, 2023, the comic features no dialogue, plenty of super heroic cameos, and lots of Alligator Loki shenanigans.   Alligator Loki #1 Alligator Loki made his debut in the final moments of the fourth episode of the Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe…

Previously serialised digitally on Marvel Unlimited, Marvel Comics is to bring the Alligator Loki comic to print in September.Previously serialised digitally on Marvel Unlimited, Marvel Comics is to bring the Alligator Loki comic book series by Alyssa Wong and Bob Quinn to print in September. The character, who first appeared in the first season of Loki+ in an extra-sized one-shot collecting many of the digital chapters so far, as well as a brand new story to add. Alligator Loki /Marvel "Alligator Loki's been living in my…

The Juicy Seafood will start serving fried catfish baskets, boiled crawfish, soft-shell crab, shrimp, lobster, alligator and more to customers in Longmont beginning this summer. The franchise restaurant, which will be at 2341 Clover Basin Drive, plans to open in late June or early July, according to managing partner Alfredo Ferradas. “Seafood, right now, is growing a lot, especially the cajun-style,” Ferradas said in an interview last week. Currently, Ferradas works as general manager of The Juicy Seafood in Aurora where…

It’s a little hard to believe, but we’re finally on the road to Hyrule. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is set to launch on May 12, paying off what felt like a grueling wait following 2017’s genre-defining Breath of the Wild. In just one month, we’ll be exploring the Sky Islands and crafting some truly ridiculous weapons. The final month before a game’s launch can be the hardest stretch of a long hype cycle, though. That’s especially true if you’re trying to fill it by playing something that’ll get you in…

Photo: Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentAn alligator egg that was stolen from a Texas zoo 20 years ago has been returned to Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo in Central Texas. The alligator, named Tewa, was reportedly taken and kept as a pet by a woman whose name has not been released and who investigators say was a volunteer at the zoo.A zoo spokesman posted a video to Facebook, saying they received a call from Texas Parks and Wildlife who said they had found the missing gator. “We were their first phone call,” a zoo…

A "very lethargic" alligator was captured in a New York park, city officials said Monday, likely released by its owner far away from the species' warmer habitat in the southeast United States.The reptile was spotted Sunday morning in Prospect Park, a favorite place for Brooklyn residents to picnic and stroll with their pets, especially when winter temperatures are in the 50s Fahrenheit (10-15 degrees Celsius) like over the holiday weekend.Rangers captured the four-foot-long (1.2 meters) alligator, which was "found very…

But catfish farming is also a great breeding ground for infections. From the time farmed fish are newly hatched to the time they are harvested, around 40% of the animals worldwide die from various diseases, says Dunham. Could the new genetic modification help?  The alligator gene, which Dunham’s research turned up as a potential answer, codes for a protein called cathelicidin. The protein is antimicrobial, says Dunham—it’s thought to help protect alligators from developing infections in the wounds they sustain during…

A group of scientists in Florida cut open a Burmese python to find an intact 5-foot (1.5 meter) alligator that had been swallowed whole.Rosie Moore, a geoscientist based in Florida, said in a November 1 Instagram post the euthanized python with a bulging stomach was turned over to a research lab for a necropsy, to collect scientific samples, and to investigate its diet.She shared a video in which the alligator was pulled out of the 18-foot-long python's digestive tract."I actually thought it was pretty gross too and I'm…