While fatal alligator attacks are typically rare, there have been three fatalities within five years in Beaufort County. Meanwhile, other attacks have occurred that have resulted in serious injury.

A South Carolina alligator was found with a strange object on its head – and wildlife experts in Georgia were called to get to the bottom of it. The University of Georgia Coastal Ecology Lab made a ...

A visitor to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp recorded a rarely seen part of the alligator mating ritual called the head slap, researchers say. Jennifer Berglund video screengrab Male alligators rumble like ...

Fripp Island Golf & Beach Resort in South Carolina reported one of its “dominant” male alligators had something stuck on its head. It was a tomato case, rescuers say. UGA Coastal Ecology Lab photo An ...

HILTON HEAD, S.C. (WSAV)—A dead alligator washed up onto the sand in front of beachgoers on Hilton Head Island on Monday. A beachgoer said that he estimated the alligator to be around 7 feet long.