The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/04/cause-of-death-revealed-for-claude-the-academy-of-sciences-albino-alligator/Claude the albino alligator, the longtime mascot of the California Academy of Sciences who died unexpectedly earlier this week at the age of 30, now has an official cause of death. The caretakers of Claude at the Cal Academy said in an earlier statement that they were getting ready to run some tests on the alligator, after he'd appeared ill and had stopped eating. And then he was unexpectedly found dead in his swamp grotto early Tuesday morning. Now, as the museum announced on Instagram, a necropsy revealed that Claude had liver cancer. "Preliminary findings from the necropsy performed by experts at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and S

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