There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.

Snowball, a 21-year-old albino alligator at the Newport Aquarium, has died. The aquarium announced the rare alligator's passing on social media Tuesday but did not state a cause of death.

In a social media announcement Tuesday, the Newport Aquarium announced the passing of a rare albino alligator and said he lived for more than two decades. “Snowball was a tremendous ambassador ...