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Cassius regained the title and held the record after Lolong's death in February 2013. [4] Crocodile researcher Graeme Webb said that Cassius was "a big old gnarly crocodile" aged between 30 and 80 years old when he was captured in 1984, and was "maybe 120 years" in 2023. [5] Cassius died in November 2024. [6]
Lolong (died 10 February 2013) was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity. He was a saltwater crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ) measured at 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in), and weighed 1,075 kg (2,370 lb), making him one of the largest crocodiles ever measured from snout-to-tail.
Cassius’s title was briefly taken away by the Philippines’ Lolong crocodile who measured 20ft 3in after it was captured in Agusan del Sur, Mindanao in the same year. But he reclaimed the title ...
Cassius, the largest confirmed crocodile from 2013-2024. The largest confirmed saltwater crocodile on record drowned in a fishing net in Papua New Guinea, in 1979. Its dried skin plus head measured 6.2 m (20 ft 4 in) in length and it was estimated to have been 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) when accounting for shrinkage and a missing tail tip.
Several other specimens in captivity such as Lolong and Cassius are considerably larger, but were all captured after growing to their adult size in the wild and is reasonable to reach a larger size. [4] [5] Skeleton of the Lolong, the largest crocodile specimen ever measured, at Philippine National Museum
Gomek in 1989 (aged 62) Gomek (1927 – March 6, 1997) was a large saltwater crocodile captured by George Craig in Papua New Guinea in 1968. [1] He was purchased by Terri and Arthur Jones in 1985 and was kept in Ocala, Florida, for five years before being sold to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida.
On the morning of Feb. 24, 1964, I sat in my office reviewing last minute details to the Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight to take place later that night at the Miami Beach Convention Center, when ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Large man-eating Nile crocodile in Burundi Gustave A photograph of Gustave for National Geographic, taken by Martin Best Species Crocodylus niloticus (Nile crocodile) Sex Male Hatched c. 1955 (age 69–70) Known for Allegedly killing up to 300 people Residence Ruzizi River and Lake ...