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Just a baby.

A more than four-metre-long alligator has been captured and killed in the US state of Mississippi after four hunters wrestled with it for seven hours.

Key points:

• The fight to catch the alligator lasted from 9pm to 4am
• The fisherman say they 'didn't think he was anything special' while trying to catch it
• The previous record was set by a 4.2 metre alligator in 2017

The 364kg animal was caught on the Yazoo River on the opening day of the 2023 alligator hunting season.

Hunter Donald Woods told USA Today the group had seen "a lot of 8-footers, 10-footers" but were chasing something bigger.

"We've been hunting these things a long time," he said.

When they finally did spot and hook their target around 9pm, they had no idea just how large the alligator truly was.

"We knew he was wide," Mr Woods said. "His back was humungous. It was like we were following a Jon boat.

"We held onto him a while, until 10 or so. He broke my rod at that point.

Seven hour fight to nab 364kg record-breaking alligator in Mississippi river

 

I've been on gator freighters, but DAMN!!!

 

What do they want to be when they grow up?

 

I go slightly nuts when people call them dinosaurs. Reptiles! Dinosaurs have their legs directly under their body and down from there. Reptiles have "side mounted" legs.

And yeah, I really liked "Introduction to Paleontology" at Purdue. (I did tell the prof. to fuck off when he asked me if I wanted to a semester in Antarctica.) I did work study removing matrix from fossils. I had to stop if I hit anything interesting until a prof. could direct my efforts in the right direction.

 

Dinosaurs evolved from reptiles. They are not classified as reptiles.

 

They don't disagree that the divergence happened, they just haven't nailed it down to an exact sequence. We don't have good examples of all the steps of the evolution. It can be a very near thing in some parts of the process.

 

I like to say "Fit to survive", not "Survival of the fittest." A mutation that makes some critter better at hunting or less visible target for a predator, things like that, that's an evolutionary advantage. Jut one factor in survival, of course.

 

Perspective is everything.

 

What The H-E-double- hockey sticks is THAT !

 

The only thing you have to Fear is ::
(Well, one of many things)





Unless you're our friend

 

German version of a kikusui bomber?

 

Taught some of those young men how to drink one time. Bangkok, I think, and tats back that up.