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A crocodile at a zoo in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in between its teeth...

An Australian who went for a drunken dip in the sea got more than he bargained for when he dived into the jaws of a large crocodile. Matt Martin was camping alone near a beach in northern Queensland when he decided to go for a dusk swim, despite having drunk what he later admitted was "half a slab", or 12 cans of beer. When the 35-year-old construction worker dived into a wave, he butted heads with a submerged saltwater crocodile. "I thought I was dead. It was sort of like when you hit rocks but the rocks had give and...

Source: University of Florida Date: October 4, 2007 No Faking It, Crocodile Tears Are Real Science Daily — When someone feigns sadness they “cry crocodile tears,” a phrase that comes from an old myth that the animals cry while eating. An alligator weeps while eating at the Florida's St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in spring 2006. University of Florida zoologist Kent Vliet shot the photo while observing alligators and caimans at the park in an attempt to determine the truth of the myth that crocodiles cry while eating. Five of the seven animals, close relatives of the crocodile, teared...

Evicted crocodiles can find their way home By Nick Squires in Cairns Last Updated: 3:38pm BST 26/09/2007 Moving rogue crocodiles to remote areas free of people is all but useless because the reptiles have a highly developed homing instinct, Australian researchers have discovered. Scientists were astonished to find that relocated saltwater crocodiles swam up to 250 miles to return to the area where they had originally been trapped. Crocodiles can get a little upset if they're evicted. The findings, detailed yesterday in an online scientific journal, PLoS ONE, suggest that wildlife authorities’ strategy of relocating rogue crocodiles needs a radical...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A crocodile survived a fall from the 12th floor of a block of flats in Russia after making an escape bid through a window, emergency services said on Wednesday. Diving out of the window has become a habit for the crocodile, called Khenar, with concerned neighbours saying it was the third time he had used that method to flee, Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported. The crocodile lost one tooth in the latest fall but was otherwise unscathed, said a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry in the Nizhny Novgorod region of central Russia. "It seems the owner was not...

Human remains found inside killer croc BINTULU (NST) - A crocodile believed to have attacked Sannga Megong, a worker at an oil palm plantation in Sungai Sebeba last month, was caught and killed by villagers here on Sunday. Human bones, hair and parts of a skull were found in the belly of the seven-metre long beast, which was caught in Sungai Similajau, about 100 metres from the location of the May 11 attack. A Sarawak Forestry Corporation spokesman, however, said it could not be confirm whether the crocodile was the one which attacked Sannga, 31. "We will send the bones...

BEIJING — A crocodile shot to death in south China during a search for a missing 9-year-old student was found to contain the child's remains, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The crocodile was shot Saturday in a park in Beihai, a city in the Guangxi region, by investigators looking for the missing child. Investigators confirmed that human remains found in the reptile were that of the student, the report said. The child, surnamed Liu, disappeared Friday after Liu and three other children climbed over the fence around a pool in the park that had been used to stage crocodile...

Guard at Rafah border crossing notice woman looking 'strangely fat,' body search reveals three small crocodiles underneath her robe Associated Press Published: 03.26.07, 18:22 / Israel News A woman was caught with three crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked "strangely fat," Officials said Monday. The woman's odd shape raised suspicions at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza, and a body search by a female border guard turned up the animals, each about 20 inches long, concealed underneath her loose robe, according to Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who...

I didn’t know that the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s daughter Bindi was such a media star. However, at a recent press conference at the National Press Club, the charming eight-year-old was asked: You’ve been doing all these interviews, right? All week long...How do reporters compare to like poisonous snakes? Bindi’s absolutely adorable response (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms Underestimated): Um. I don’t want to offend anyone here. Okay? I really don’t want to offend anyone, but, um…Okay, so please, nobody be offended…I think I like poisonous snakes!

A HUGE crocodile that killed a mother of four in Bougainville has been shot dead by police. The 7m animal was spotted on Friday near the mouth of the Tasui River where it seized Martina Tewei two weeks ago, Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier newspaper reported today. The newspaper said police used all the bullets in the magazine of an M16 rifle to kill the animal. It took an hour to die, and 30 men to lift it onto a truck, the Post-Courier said.

China zoo sells crocodile meat to raise money Tue Nov 7, 3:33 AM ET A crocodile zoo in south China's island province of Hainan has started selling its animals to local meat lovers in an effort to raise money, a zoo official has said. The Nantai Crocodile Lake Zoo, home to over 3,000 crocodiles, started the trade late last week, offering the exotic meat at 216 yuan (27 dollars) per kilogram, said Zheng Yi, the zoo's director. "So far we've managed to sell the meat of one or two crocodiles a day," Zheng told AFP by telephone. "If there is...

<p>FIVE people were needed to haul a 300kg crocodile from a Northern Territory river popular with locals for water sports.</p> <p>The 3.7m male saltwater crocodile was dragged from Howard River at Howard Springs, about 40km south of Darwin, early today.</p>

A CROCODILE believed to be the biggest known specimen in the world has returned to a popular Territory fishing spot. Dozens of tourists were treated to a rare sighting of the super-sized saltie, estimated to measure at least 6m long, on a boat tour of Corroboree Billabong. Tour guide Ted Jackson, who operates Wilderness 4WD Safaris, spotted the saltie on the banks of the Mary River two months ago - but did not see it again until Sunday. "He is without a doubt the largest-known living crocodile I've ever seen or heard of," he said. "We were just 2m from...

CROCODILE Hunter Steve Irwin's family say they have formally declined a state funeral and will hold a private service within the next seven days. Irwin's father Robert Irwin today also said a memorial service would be held in honour of his son within the next two weeks at an undecided location. Mr Irwin said the family had decided to hold a private funeral for family and close friends only. On behalf of the grief-stricken Irwin family, Mr Irwin read the details from a written statement to a media throng outside the family's wildlife park Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Feminist Greer slams Steve's antics By Fiona Hudson in London September 06, 2006 01:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph AS glowing tributes and praise for Steve Irwin filled newspapers and television screens around the world, fellow Australian Germaine Greer launched a distasteful tirade on the much-loved Crocodile Hunter yesterday. Most London papers carried sympathetic news articles, features, columns and obituaries mirroring the disbelief felt in Australia. But Greer launched a scathing attack on Irwin, declaring "the animal world has finally taken its revenge". In her column in The Guardian newspaper, Greer said the wildlife warrior displayed the "sort of self-delusion...

Irwin family offered state funeralSTEVE Irwin will get a state funeral if that's what his family wants, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says. The 44-year-old media personality and environmentalist died yesterday when a stingray barb punctured his heart while he was filming a nature documentary off the coast of Port Douglas in north Queensland.... Asked if his government would honour Irwin with a state funeral, Mr Beattie replied: "We will honour Steve Irwin in whatever way his family wants." But first it was important to let his wife Terry and two young children, who recently returned to Queensland from Tasmania, deal...

CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

A 23-feet giant Estuarine crocodile in Orissa has been crowned the world's largest, officials said on Friday, Reuters reports. The reptile, named Baula Kumbhira (crazy crocodile), lives in Bhitarkanika sanctuary and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records, said SC Mohanty, a top wildlife official. Three other Estuarine crocodiles at the sanctuary, all measuring over 19-feet, also find a mention on the Guinness website. The sanctuary is home to 1,462 crocodiles. "There could be bigger crocodiles living in Australia and in the Nile in Africa, but this one's size has been authenticated," said Rathin Banerjee, an expert in crocodile...

Aussie chainsaw croc runs amok   Saltwater crocs are known to attack boats with outboard motors A crocodile in northern Australia has chased a storm-clearance worker up a tree and made off with his chainsaw.The 4.4m (14.5ft) saltwater crocodile called Brutus apparently took exception to the noise of the saw. The worker was clearing a tree that fell on the crocodile enclosure at the Corroboree Park Tavern, 80km (50 miles) east of the northern city of Darwin. Brutus chewed on the chainsaw for 90 minutes, reducing it to pieces. Neither man nor beast was injured. Northern Australia has an...

A 4.4-metre crocodile has chased a man up a tree in the Northern Territory while the man was cleaning-up debris left by cyclone Monica. The owner of the Corroboree Park Tavern, Peter Shappert, says the man was trying to remove a tree that had fallen against the saltwater crocodile pen. Mr Shappert says the crocodile, named Brutis, managed to take possession of the chainsaw the man was using. "He's been a bit upset with the noise, so he's come shooting out of the pond, run up the tree and tried to grab Freddy the chainsaw man," he said. "So he's...