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Python explodes after eating alligator

By Denise Kalette
Associated Press — Oct. 6, 2005

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

MIAMI — Alligators have clashed with nonnative pythons before in Everglades National Park. But when a 6-foot gator tangled with a 13-foot python recently, the result wasn't pretty. The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole — and then exploded. Scientists stumbled upon the gory remains last week. The species have battled with increasing frequency — scientists have documented four encounters in the last three years. The encroachment of Burmese pythons into the Evergl ...

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