Why did the alligator cross the road? To get to the other side and devour his turtle snack, of course. A video showing an alligator stopping traffic to cross the road with a turtle in its mouth ...

"American alligators treat turtles like nature's hard candy," the agency's Facebook post said. "An alligator's jaw is so powerful they have no problem crunching through a hard turtle shell." ...

Two 18-year-olds with experience fishing the Buffalo Bayou in Houston hooked into what they first thought might be an alligator snapping turtle, but it ended up being a huge alligator gar.

But to their delight, they hooked something possibly even more exciting — a 200-pound-plus alligator snapping turtle. "We had to remove the hook from his foot and [this reptile's] bite can ...