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TRIBUNJOGJA.COM – Wild Nothern Territory (NT) agents in Australia captured a marine crocodile that was hunted for 10 years.
This crocodile is called a "giant" because of its length reaching 4, "In fact, it is the largest saltwater crocodile of the Katherine Management Zone," said John Burke, a wildlife officer quoted by ABC News Tuesday (10/7/2018).
However, is it true that the crocodile deserves to be called a giant?
Stephani Drumheller-Horton, a paleontologist from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an expert in reptiles, says the Guinness record mentions that the largest Lolong crocodile
The crocodile measures 6.17 meters. In addition to Lolong, there is also the longest record of saltwater crocodile held by specimens from Papua New Guinea.
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Its length reaches 6.2 meters. but the majority of saltwater crocodiles do not even reach the size of a newly caught crocodile in Australia.
Selina Groh, doctoral candidate at the UCL-Birkbeck Department of Earth Sciences and Planets in London and Crocodylia expert, revealed that the world's largest, followed by the Nile Crocodile in Africa American alligator.
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However, to reach the size of 4.7 meters, require special conditions, including a warm weather, vast space for exploration and large prey prey
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