Given that we are living during the golden age of the mammals, it seems to make sense that we often find ourselves in utter awe over the more impressive reptilians. After all, we’ve long had a fascination with dinosaurs, so we would naturally be inclined to pay particular interest to certain lizards .
Among the still-living dinosaurs of our modern age, the American Alligator is one of the most incredibly powerful and potent predators that exist today.
In South Carolina, a gator hunter decided to take a peek in the belly of his latest trophy, and what he found was simply astonishing.
The owner of a butcher and taxidermy shop in Ravenel, South Carolina, said his team recently discovered five dog tags and several other items inside the belly of a 12-foot alligator.
“The gator, which weighed in at 445 pounds, was killed by Ned McNeely, who owns the Adams Run property where he found it,” WCSC reported Friday.
But wait…there’s more.
He asked the shop’s Kenneth Cordray about looking inside the alligator’s stomach and Cordray said that is not something the team normally does but decided to grant his request.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, the business shared photos of the animal and detailed the other items the employee’s found.
“5 dog tags, 1 bullet jacket, 1 spark plug, loads of turtle shells, and several bobcat claws were inside. Two of the tags were legible and one phone number still worked. The owner said he had that lease 24 years ago and those were from his deer dogs. Pretty interesting,” the post read […]
