On Thanksgiving morning, Kelly Alvarez was leading her regular tour in Everglades National Park when she heard a child in her group shouting about something in the water.

From the observation tower at Shark Valley, the group had a clear view of the surrounding water. Initially, Alvarez wasn’t sure what the child was pointing to.

“I thought it might just be a log floating,” Alvarez narrated to YSL News during an interview on Monday. “Then I saw the alligator moving it.”

Alvarez recognized the alligator, informally called Godzilla, who often basks in the sun by the observation tower. To her astonishment, she realized he was dragging a dead python in his jaws, with the snake trailing way behind him.

Footage depicts 12-foot alligator pulling a python in the Everglades

“I’ve witnessed many alligators consuming pythons out here, but I have never seen a python that big,” Alvarez remarked.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, disrupting local wildlife by preying on nearly any animal they encounter. The longest python captured in Florida was recorded at 19 feet long.

Alvarez estimates Godzilla is at least 10 feet in length, but she suspects he might be around 12 feet or possibly slightly longer.

The video she filmed that day shows the alligator moving through the water, its mouth clenching a swollen snake with the missing ends floating beside it.

“That’s so intense!” Alvarez exclaimed in the video.

She explained that alligators tend to hold onto significant prey for several weeks as it decomposes, which could clarify the bloated appearance of the snake.

From the position where the alligator was gripping the snake, parts of it floated alongside, with one end extending far beyond Godzilla’s tail. This led Alvarez to speculate that the snake could be at least 20 feet long, which would make it one of the largest in the Everglades, if her estimation is correct.

“You know it’s a big deal when it’s something we’ve never encountered before,” another tour guide remarked in the background of the video.