NEWPORT, KY (FOX19) - Mighty Mike, the 14-foot, 800-pound American alligator, is returning to Newport Aquarium in the spring. Mighty Mike made a limited appearance at the aquarium last year. To better ...

Mighty Mike glistens in the sun, his armored back dinosaurlike, his eyes peering out above the water. The 800-pound, 13-foot alligator is the newest visitor at the John Ball Zoo, there for the summer ...

NEWPORT, Ky. -- Like a snowbird fleeing winter, the time has nearly come for Mighty Mike to head south again. Mike, a 14-foot, 800-pound American alligator, has been living at the Newport Aquarium for ...

No one staring from the other side of the 3-inch-thick acrylic window at OdySea Aquarium knew what would happen when the wooden panel slid open to reveal the 14-foot alligator in an 11-foot crate.

When Bruce Shwedick first laid eyes upon the alligator that would become an ambassador of the species and his traveling companion, the oversize beast was thrashing at the end of a rope tied to a tree.