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KENDRAPARA: Forest officials have sighted around 114 nests of saltwater crocodiles during the nesting season this year in Bhitarkanika national park. “In 2023 and 2022, we had counted 122 nests ...

Kendrapada: Forest officials sighted around 114 nests of saltwater crocodiles during the nesting season in Bhitarkanika National Park this year. “In 2023 and 2022, we counted 122 nests whereas ...

Dozens of saltwater crocodiles in a pen at Johnstone River Crocodile Farm in Innisfail, Queensland, Australia in 2006. REUTERS/Russell Boyce 2023-10-10T22:59:58Z ...

KENDRAPARA: Forest officials have sighted around 114 nests of saltwater crocodiles during the nesting season this year in Bhitarkanika national park. “In 2023 and 2022, we had counted 122 nests ...

Through a combination of seasonal luck and the use of egg incubators, the park now has a strong new generation of baby saltwater crocodiles. "Most of our nests did come pretty early," Ms Grills said.

The saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, is the largest living reptile on Earth, and it rules the waters from northern Australia to Southeast Asia. These massive reptiles are often called "salties ...

Burt, the gigantic saltwater crocodile who was on the receiving end of Mick “Crocodile” Dundee’s famous knife in the hit Eighties film Crocodile Dundee, has died. He was believed to have ...

Siamese crocodiles were first listed as virtually extinct in the wild in 1992. While captive populations lived in zoos and crocodile farms, decades of poaching of the animals for their soft ...

Like many reptiles, crocodile gender is determined by the temperature they experience while the eggs are in the nest. At 28–30°C all hatchlings in a nest will be female. A degree warmer – 31°C – and ...

In September last year, wildlife rangers in the Northern Territory discovered a saltwater crocodile nest on the outskirts of Palmerston, population 40,000 and just 20 kilometres from downtown Darwin.