Crocodile Australia
The largest species of crocodile, also Earth's largest reptile, is the Saltwater Crocodile, found in northern Australia and throughout South-east Asia. According to scientists there are no truly reliable records of any non-prehistoric crocodiles over 28 feet 4 inches (). In the town of Normanton, Queensland, Australia, there is a fibreglass mould of a crocodile called "Krys the Croc", shot in 1958 by Krystina Pawloski, a teacher/taxidermist who found the 28-foot, 4-inch ( m) animal on a sandbank on the Norman River near her school outside Normanton. There is a decades old story that a crocodile killed in the Bay of Bengal, India, measured 33 feet (10m) long. A more recent measurement of its skull in the British Museum (crocodile skull measurements are accurate for determining body length) showed the animal to have been around 17 feet ( m) long. There is a report of a saltwater crocodile in Australia that was 27 feet ( m) long. There is also a skull of a salt water crocodile from Orissa, India that is very large and the animal is estimated to have been 21-23 feet ( to 7 m) long. The other two larger certifiable records of complete crocodile are both of ( m) crocodiles. The first crocodile was shot in the Mary River in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1974 by poachers and measured by wildlife rangers. The second crocodile was killed in 1983 in the Fly River, Papua New Guinea. In this latter crocodile it was actually the skin that was measured by zoologist Jerome Montague, and as skins are known to underestimate the size of the actual animal, it is possible this crocodile was at least another 4 inches (10 cm) longer
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