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Alligators are native only to the United States and China. [19] [20] American alligators are found in the southeast United States: all of Florida and Louisiana; the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; coastal South and North Carolina; East Texas, the southeast corner of Oklahoma, and the southern tip of Arkansas.
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator, or common alligator is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico.
In its native country, the Chinese alligator has been listed as a Class I endangered species since 1972, which gives it the highest possible degree of legal protection and makes killing or capturing the species in the wild forbidden. [2] It is listed as a CITES Appendix I species [60] and an endangered species by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...
That said, South Carolina’s Post and Courier reports that the state recorded five deaths resulting from alligator attacks between 2016 and 2022 but none in the previous 16 years.
The Chinese alligator split from the American alligator about 33 million years ago [8] and likely descended from a lineage that crossed the Bering land bridge during the Neogene. The modern American alligator is well represented in the fossil record of the Pleistocene. [9] The alligator's full mitochondrial genome was sequenced in the 1990s. [10]
Alligator experts say the reason for the increase in attacks is simple. More people live close to alligator habitats. Once a dwindling species in South Carolina, alligators have rebounded thanks ...
Alligators & caimans - Alligatoridae: Scientific name Common name Distribution Status Paleosuchus palpebrosus: Cuvier's dwarf caiman: Paleosuchus trigonatus:
The sewer systems of Florida are teeming with an “abundance” of alligators, racoons, and a dozen other animals using the drain pipes to traverse the city, scientists reveal in a new study.