When prompted to yawn, the unsettling face would peel open its lips, briefly shut its eyes for several seconds, and then return to its neutral position. Each expression could last up to 10 seconds.

A 7-foot alligator was removed from a Jensen Beach, Florida, residential pool on May 31. The incident occurred during alligator mating season, which typically takes place in May or June.

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Alligator encounters with humans are more common in the spring mating season when they are most active, Young said. There are an estimated 1.3 million alligators in Florida.

FWC said the alligator attack occurred on Lake Kissimmee near Tiger Creek. A similar, though non-lethal attack happened in the same creek in March.

ST. PETERSBURG — An alligator killed a Florida woman after tipping over a canoe she and her husband were paddling, which investigators say appeared to be an accidental encounter. The attack ...

Yawning isn’t just about sleepiness. You can yawn when you’re bored or even overstimulated. In these moments, your brain might slow down, and a yawn helps snap you back to attention.

Not everyone is equally susceptible to contagious yawning. In controlled studies, approximately 40% to 60% of typical volunteers yawned in response to watching another person yawn in a video.

If you see a yawning frog with some jelly-like substance around its mouth, you’re seeing dead skin in line to be eaten. It’s not yawning because it’s tired.

Yawning may help cool down the brain When temperatures in the brain rise above its baseline — because of increases in mental processing while focusing on a task, exercising or being anxious or ...

Most of us can feel a yawn coming on. The muscles in our jaw begin to tighten, our nostrils might flare, and our eyes might tear up as our mouths stretch open and we inhale a gust of air.

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. — A second alligator sighting was reported Tuesday morning on Georgia's Tybee Island. (Video above is file when an alligator was spotted in the water on Folly Beach in 2022) ...