Sea Monsters

Image: Reconstruction of the land-dwelling crocodile, Quinkana. Credit, Andrey Atuchin, Rochelle Lawrence & Scott Hocknull © 2020 Queensland Museum.

Quinkana is a land dwelling crocodile that once roamed Australia. Learn more about Quinkana:

  • Lived 4 million – 40,000 years ago
  • Possibly a land-dwelling crocodile
  • Possibly grew up to 5-6 metres long
  • Teeth adapted for slicing flesh
  • Meat eater, probably an ambush predator
  • Fossils of Quinkana have been found in caves lending support to them being a land-dwelling crocodilian

Meet more megafauna