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(10-30-2019, 10:26 PM)DinoFan83 Wrote: That was the best Orinoco croc I found. It was scaled using the 20 cm cubes on your image.
Maybe the photo was taken from an angle or it's a very big headed croc?
The thing is this, animals vary between specimens, not to much, but they do. So if we got a random specimen and you "warp" is it will give you incorrect results. In this case, if the specimen that you got was a short body-long head specimen, definitelly it will give you a huge specimen with measurements that are not reliable.
Check that the biggest saltwater crorodiles had skulls of less than 85 cm (Whitaker & Whitaker, 2008), so no Orinoco crocodile can have skull of over 1 meter, In fact I was checking the largest croc in your image and already have a skull as large as that of a T. rex!
Check my comparison images, you will see that I not just try to "warp" the animal, but try to keep all the proportions, specially the skulls. In crocs, that is very important.
Finally, but not less important, you need to search for "real" measurements, not just random figures in the web or unverified records quoted in Wikipedia. A crocodile of 6.8 meters in larger than the largest recorded crocs in Africa or Asia/Oceania. So, try to use real measurements, it will take much more time but the reliability will be much greater.