{"id":543638,"date":"2026-03-25T04:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543638\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:09:07","slug":"wildlife-photographer-captures-florida-gator-eat-venomous-coral-snake-in-one-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/543638\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife photographer captures Florida gator eat venomous coral snake in one bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM<\/p>\n<p>Florida gator eats up venomous coral snake in one bite <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAKELAND, Fla.  \u2014 A photographer captured a spectacular struggle in the swamp between two of the Sunshine State\u2019s most dangerous animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Acclaimed wildlife photographer Jon Burket was taking pictures in the Circle B-Bar Reserve near Lakeland earlier this month when he came across this incredible scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A young alligator had snatched a coral snake from the water\u2019s edge, then eating it whole in one bite. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coral snakes are among North America\u2019s most venomous snakes, but this guy was no match for the hungry gator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Burket said some have claimed the pictures are AI, but he says it\u2019s very real and very rare to capture on camera.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM Florida gator eats up venomous coral snake in one bite LAKELAND, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-543638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}