By Rafi Letzter, Staff
Writer | July 11, 2018 02:45pm ET
Australian parks and wildlife
rangers captured a monster of a crocodile Monday
(July 9), according to The
Sydney Morning Herald. The beast was 15 feet 5 inches long
(4.7 meters) and weighed a whopping 1,300 lbs. (600 kilograms).
If a reptile long enough to block
two lanes of traffic sounds big to you, you've got good instincts. Experts told
Live Science that this Australian saltwater crocodile (a "salty" in
Aussie parlance) was unusually large, even for its hefty species — though it
wasn't the biggest size crocodiles like this can reach.
"This animal was very large,
but saltwater crocodiles can actually get much bigger," said Stephanie
Drumheller-Horton, a paleontologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
and a reptile expert. "Lolong, a saltwater crocodile from the Philippines,
was 6.17 m [20 feet 3 inches] long and holds the Guinness World Record for the
largest crocodile ever captured. Other than Lolong, there are records of a
saltwater crocodile skin from Papua New Guinea which was 6.2 m [20 feet 4
inches] in length. And, of course, there are always rumors of even bigger
animals in the wild." [Photos
Comparing Alligators and Crocodiles]
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