Previously, I published a post about the largest crocodiles ever recorded. All sizes in that post were recorded in the recent times. The crocs listed were large, yes, but not as big as most people think. But in the prehistoric ages, some animals were much bigger than today’s counterparts – including crocodiles. So, what was the World’s biggest crocodile ever lived? Here are the top six candidates.
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Largest Alligator Ever Measured
Alligators can often reach at least 14 or 15 feet in length, which is even larger than some crocodile species, but not all of them, especially not the Saltwater Crocodile (I am talking about the American alligator – A. mississippiensis here, the Chinese alligator – A. sinensis is much smaller). But what is the largest alligator ever measured?
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World’s Largest Crocodile? (7+ meters/23+ feet)
A widely circulated photo over the internet which shows a giant crocodile with a bunch of villagers sitting behind. A story next to the photo saying “the people in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at a rapid rate, and called in the army, which shot a 7+ meters, 1200 kg crocodile.”
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Largest great white sharks ever recorded
The great white shark (scientific name: Carcharodon carcharias) is not the biggest shark (that title goes to the whale shark), but they are the largest predatory fish on Earth. According to the Guinness World Records Book, full grown adults are average 4.3–4.6 m (14–15 ft) in length, and generally weigh 520–770 kg (1,150-1,700 lb). But there are many claims of huge specimens up to 10 m (33 ft) in length. Newspapers and home photo albums are full of unconfirmed huge great white tales. And although few have been properly authenticated, there are a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest that some great whites grow to more than 6 m (20 ft) in length. Here are some of the largest great white sharks ever recorded.
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Hercules, the liger: World’s Largest Living Cat (video)
Meet Hercules, the liger, currently the largest cat on Earth. In general, ligers are the largest (heaviest, longest and tallest) cats in the world. They can be more than 900 pounds (~408 kg) and 12 feet (~3.65 m) long, weighing almost 100 times more than house cats and almost twice as much as either Panthera tigris (tiger) or Panthera leo (lion) – two biggest species in the Panthera family.
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The man who swims with a crocodile: the story of Chito and Pocho
A unique friendship between a man and a crocodile: nicknamed “Chito”, Gilberto Shedden, a Costa Rican fisherman and naturalist has had an unusual friend: “Pocho”, the crocodile longer than 5 meters, with a weight up to half a ton.
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Two kangaroos get into boxing match (video)
Somewhere in the Central Coast of Australia, two kangaroos are caught on camera in an intense boxing match on a suburban street. The marsupials can be seen punching and kicking each other close to houses in Central Coast, New South Wales. It is not clear where the action was filmed.
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Great white shark fight caught on camera (video)
The Great White Sharks, kings of the seas. They are fearless hunters. And they are big: a mature individual can grow up to 6.4 m (21 ft) in length (there are even reports of great white sharks measuring over 8 m (26 ft), and 3,324 kg (7,328 lb) in weigh). According to wikipedia, “The great white shark has no natural predators other than the Orca.” But this is not always true. Sometimes, great whites attacks and even hunt each other.
Even though the great whites are known to generally avoid conflicts with each other, the phenomenon of cannibalism is not alien to this species. This rare phenomenon, has been caught on camera recently: London-born diver Adam Malski (33) filmed a fight between two great white sharks 50 kilometers off the coast of South Australia’s Neptune Islands.
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Sleeping cat and dog
I took these photos last week in Bodrum, Turkey. A stray cat and stray dog sleeping together in the same place, very closely. Beautiful.
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A baby monkey and a lion cub play at Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, China
Today’s “daily d’awww” is coming from China: A baby monkey playing with a lion cub at Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang. There are also two cute tiger cubs playing with at the background.
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