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Hatchling Alligators, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida, 1994

Hatchling alligators break free of their shells in Big Cypress Swamp in the Florida Everglades. Babies who have trouble emerging get a surprisingly delicate assist from the tooth-lined jaws of their mother.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Everglades: Dying for Help," April 1994, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Chris Johns

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