It would look menacing if it weren’t so small.

A baby American alligator rested with its mouth agape between the hands of Joseph Kenney, an animal educator with Joe’s Crazzy Critters, on Wednesday night.

He said it took about 15 minutes, using a flashlight and a headlamp, to find the alligator in the Charles River waters near Back Bay in Boston.

“With the cold temps, the alligator had very low chances of surviving,” Kenney said in an Instagram post.

The alligator first surfaced on social media after a jogger along the river spotted the small reptile. The video showed the alligator, black with bright yellowish-white bands, among fallen leaves — a strange sight in New England.

It crawled backwards into the water after flashing its tiny teeth.

MassWildlife officials did not immediate

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