Size comparisons

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(01-21-2017, 03:21 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Another interesting size comparison would be salt water crocodile vs Nile crocodile. Just from watching documentaries, I find it hard to believe that there is enough size difference to truthfully call one bigger than the other.

Fun fact: the largest reliably measured Nile crocodile is actually slightly longer than the largest Saltwater crocodile.

The largest confirmed saltwater crocodile on record drowned in a fishing net in Papua New Guinea in 1979, its dried skin plus head measured 6.20 m (20 ft 4 in) long and it was estimated to have been 6.30 m (20 ft 8 in) when accounting for shrinkage and a missing tail tip. The largest accurately measured male Nile crocodile, shot near Mwanza, Tanzania, measured 6.45 m (21 ft 2 in) and weighed about 1,090 kg (2,400 lb).

However: a 76 cm long Saltwater crocodile skull was discovered in Cambodia, which is larger than any Nile crocodile skull ever found. It was estimated to belong to an animal 6.90 meters long.

The average saltie is also a tad larger than a Nile, by about a foot and a hundred pounds or so. Reply