Deep in the murky waters and dense vegetation of Georgia’s wetlands, American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) reign as prehistoric predators that have survived for millions of years. These ...

The crown jewel of Georgia’s alligator habitats is undoubtedly the Okefenokee Swamp, a vast 438,000-acre wetland that straddles the Georgia-Florida border. This ancient ecosystem houses thousands of ...

The $63.7 million project would restore forests and wetland habitats along 39 miles of the Mississippi River. The Lower Mississippi River’s largest ecosystem restoration project got the federal ...

Alligators are found throughout the South Carolina’s coastal plain. This gator at Kiawah Island was sunning itself by a golf course water hole. Sammy Fretwell/The State As interest in hunting ...

New student-led projects will address flooding, ecosystem health and habitat resilience in coastal Georgia Graduate students from the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University have been ...

Swamps and bayous count as some of the most compelling natural landscapes in America. Confined mostly to the southeastern corner of the United States, swampland is defined as forested wetland.

The large alligator tried not once, but twice to cross the ramp onto U.S. 17 near the Battleship North Carolina, eventually prompting the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office to intervene. A few days ...

That includes North Carolina, where the best guess is several thousand alligators live in the state's coastal plain. Because the Tar Heel state represents the northern-most limit of the alligator ...

A 10-foot, 6-inch, 400-pound hunchback alligator was caught in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, according to the University of Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab. Larry Woodward/USFWS photo The mere ...

Alligator attacks on humans in Georgia are rare, with only nine such reported incidents from 1980 to July 2023, according to the Wildlife Resources Division. Just one of those attacks was fatal.

Alligators are prone to deformities due to their violent lifestyle, but this is something new, the University’s of Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab wrote in a Feb. 19 Facebook post.