10.06.2005

lunch anyone?

Have you guys seen this one? I guess that snake bit off more than he could chew! You can click on the picture to see it bigger. That's the other end of the snake sticking back at a right angle to the gator's tail (it took me a while to figure that one out... you can see the shape of the front of the gator inside the snake... cool!)

Fight to the death

The carcass of a 6-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python on Monday, Sept. 26, in Everglades National Park after the snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole and literally exploded -- killing both animals. ``Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild. ... And we here are, it's happened for the fourth time,'' said Frank Mazzotti, a University of Florida wildlife professor. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw.

(AP/ Everglades National Park)