Larger alligators are known to eat smaller ones, which is a major factor in adult alligator mortality, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
The Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences has had alligators on display for more than 100 years, although Claude is the museum’s first albino alligator, the museum said.
These members of the order of Carnivora, which includes bears, wolves, felines, seals, and many other mammals that specialize in eating flesh, have found a way to reorganize themselves to take full advantage of all that city life has to offer.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 July 2026
However, these reactors require highly reliable seals to prevent the escape of extremely corrosive salt vapors and toxic gases (like hydrogen fluoride).
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 July 2026
These passages are called portages, a term derived from English and French trappers who, alongside Indigenous nations like the Ojibwe and the Dakota, collected pelts for the lucrative fur trade from the late 17th century to the early 19th.
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John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
The beautiful array of their divergent sizes and pelts coalesced as oils on canvas and rendered their exploits almost dreamlike.
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