{"id":166168,"date":"2023-06-21T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/worlds-largest-captive-croc-turns-120-giving-scientists-serious-knowledge-on-longevity"},"modified":"2023-06-21T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:22:25","slug":"worlds-largest-captive-croc-turns-120-giving-scientists-serious-knowledge-on-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/worlds-largest-captive-croc-turns-120-giving-scientists-serious-knowledge-on-longevity","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s largest captive croc turns 120, giving scientists \u2018serious knowledge on longevity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-largest-captive-croc-turns-120-giving-scientists-serious-knowledge-on-longevity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way of knowing Cassius\u2019 actual age as he was born in the wild and the age is just an estimate,\u201d Toody Scott, a crocodile keeper who looks after Cassius at Marineland Crocodile Park on Green Island, told Live Science in an email. The nearly 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) saltwater giant\u2019s birthday \u201cwas essentially made up a few years ago\u201d and this time of year is actually \u201cthe wrong time of year for a crocodile to be born in northern Australia,\u201d Scott added.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, researchers captured the crocodile on a cattle ranch southwest of Darwin, Australia, after the ranch owners complained they were losing livestock. Even then, when Cassius was estimated to be between 30 and 80 years old, he was the biggest crocodile ever caught alive in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was 16 feet, 10 inches [5.13 m] with at least another 6 inches [15 centimeters] of tail missing and a bit of a snout missing,\u201d Grahame Webb, a crocodile researcher who participated in the capture, told ABC News. \u201cHe was a big old gnarly crocodile then. Crocs of that size are not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no way of knowing Cassius\u2019 actual age as he was born in the wild and the age is just an estimate,\u201d Toody Scott, a crocodile keeper who looks after Cassius at Marineland Crocodile Park on Green Island, told Live Science in an email. The nearly 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) saltwater giant\u2019s birthday \u201cwas essentially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}