EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. – There’s a new twist in a growing mystery in the Florida Everglades.
A tram guide went viral this weekend after posting video of an alligator dragging a massive python in Shark Valley.
Kelly Alvarez wrote on social media that she believed that the alligator was 12-feet-long and that the python appeared to be twice as long.
Now, parkgoers are reporting seeing the giant snake carcass.
Alison Joslyn was riding along the bike trail in Shark Valley this week when she saw a smaller gator with what is left of the massive snake.
Joslyn believes that when the larger gator was done with its meal, the smaller one moved in for the rest.
She said there is still a huge chunk of snake left for the next brave gator quick enough to grab it.
There has been an all-out effort the last several years to eradicate invasive pythons from the Everglades and Big Cypress Nat’l Preserve, and gators are helping in the fight.
In July 2023, a python hunting crew bagged the longest documented Burmese python ever caught in Florida.
Jake Waleri and Steven Gauta stumbled upon the 19-foot beast near Naples.