60 YEAR OLD CROC TRAPPED

After a decade-long hunt, rangers have finally captured Katherine River’s biggest crocodile — weighing in at a whopping 600 kilograms and measuring 4.71 metres long, about the length of an average family car.

The hunt began after rumours of a “large dark tail” spotted near a local boat ramp, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Parks and Wildlife rangers Chris Heydon and John Burke said it was very unusual to capture a croc this big in the Katherine River system.

“We average a 4.2 metre croc most years, but never this big.

Despite its extremely heavy weight, rangers said the male croc, who might be over 60 years old, was not as difficult to trap.