This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the summer of 2008 an American crocodile left Florida's Biscayne Bay, swam along a yacht-lined canal through the ...

The adult male Nile crocodile often reaches lengths of 11 to 16 feet (3.5 to 5 meters) — although some crocodiles have been recorded that are even bigger — and weighs up to 1,650 pounds (750 kg).

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. As I stood underneath the tree in Australia’s Northern Territory, I thought about what the saltwater crocodile ...