The Saltwater or Estuarine Crocodile lived 3 million years ago to present day. Learn more about Crocodylus:

• Grows up to 7 m in length
• Teeth adapted for aquatic prey such as fish and turtles
• Meat eater, an ambush predator
• Small crested bony armour along its back called osteoderms
• Fossils of Crocodylus porosus have been found alongside those of Pallimnarchus, the giant freshwater crocodile
• Found throughout northern tropical coastal Australia

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