The dangers of not waiting until your food is dead

In this photo provided by the Everglades National Park, the carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown protruding from the midsection of a 13-foot Burmese python Monday, Sept. 26, 2005 in Everglades National Park, Fla., after the snake apparently swallowed the alligator, resulting in the deaths of both animals.

Now that must have been one nasty fight. In reading the accompanying article to this picture, they hypothesize that the alligator "may have clawed at the python's stomach as the snake tried to digest it, leading to the blow up." Oh, and apparently the head of the alligator was still in the python's stomach.

Nature at its best.