Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos

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(02-14-2019, 08:08 AM)johnny rex Wrote: Initially, the largest skull of Saltwater crocodile is from the Cambodia which is now housed in Paris Museum. It measured 76 cm from the tip of the snout to the back of skull table, maximum head width of 48 cm and 98.3 cm mandible. It was estimated this croc perhaps around 22-23 meters long. But there are Saltie skulls albeit shorter in dorsal skull length but wider than the giganormous skull from the Cambodia, for example a Saltie skull named Edgar in Singapore museum which is 70 cm from the tip of the snout to the back of skull table and maximum head width of 52 cm. This wide Saltie skull is believed to come from Java, Indonesia. Anyway, Lolong's dorsal skull length (from the tip of the snout to the back of skull table) is 70 cm but narrower at 45 cm.

Thank you! @johnny rex
I read in some sources that biggest saltie body mass is >2 tonns known to us but it can be even more unknown still around the world and since, its evolution 4.0–4.5 million years ago, many even bigger giants might have roamed this earth we never know them. How far is it reliable? Then, if that giant lurks in water, even an African adult Bush Elephant healthy prime aged tusker can be overpowered, ripped, drowned and eaten alive in water by this giant 2 ton croc  of its kind (imagine him in this giant saltie's natural habitat)!

A research paper on the morphology and physiology of crocodilians by an organisation estimates that saltwater crocodiles reaching sizes of 7 m (23 ft 0 in) would weigh around 2,000 kg (4,400 lb).

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