While the biggest animal to ever live is still swimming about ... The story goes that the alligator was killed on Marsh Island by a 17-year-old named Edward “Ned” Avery McIlhenny.

Alligators and crocodiles are perhaps the most fearsome and prehistoric of all the animals that share the planet with humans. The jaws of the American alligator can chomp with up to 3,000 pounds ...