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Photo of the Day: Best of May 2008

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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) Buy a print of this photo. Photograph by Chris Johns