A python apparently tried to swallow an alligator whole - and then exploded.

As one commenter joked, "Congratulations, your python is pregnant with an alligator." Florida encourages people to kill Burmese pythons because they eat so many other species and reproduce rapidly.

Florida's 1.3 million alligators enjoy a varied, opportunistic diet, including snakes. Do gators eat invasive Burmese pythons, too?

An alligator is being cheered on social media after it was photographed eating an invasive python in the Shark Valley area of the Everglades in south Florida.

A Florida woman captured an incredible video of an alligator enjoying a large python for an afternoon snack, garnering the attention of multiple people on social media.