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Friday, December 19, 2014

Jaws of death! Amazing pictures of giant saltwater crocodile crushing the shell of a dead sea turtle... before strutting off with a full stomach


  • .Ranger Dani Best captured the moment a saltwater crocodile fed on a dead sea turtle
  • .The turtle was found on a beach at Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in the Northern Territory
  • .According to Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle is a threatened species
Amazing images have been emerged of the moment a mammoth saltwater crocodile shattered a dead sea turtle's shell out on a remote beach in the Northern Territory.
Ranger Dani Best first discovered the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle washed up on shore two weeks ago, killed by a ghost net.
She cut the endangered species out of the net and placed a wildlife monitoring camera, which captured a number of animals coming in for a free feed.
But the footage also showed the powerful pressure of a crocodile's bite as it crushed the outer layer of the turtle in order to gain access to the meaty goods.
Amazing images have been emerged of the moment a saltwater crocodile shattered a dead sea turtle's shell out in a remote beach in the Northern Territory
Amazing images have been emerged of the moment a saltwater crocodile shattered a dead sea turtle's shell out in a remote beach in the Northern Territory
Ranger Dani Best first discovered the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, which was killed by a ghost net, washed up on shore two weeks ago
Ranger Dani Best first discovered the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, which was killed by a ghost net, washed up on shore two weeks ago
Rangers cut the endangered species out of the net and placed a wildlife monitoring camera, which captured a number of animals coming in for a free feed
Rangers cut the endangered species out of the net and placed a wildlife monitoring camera, which captured a number of animals coming in for a free feed
According to Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, the sea creature is a threatened speciesĀ 
According to Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, the sea creature is a threatened species 
Ms Best was collecting rubbish along the coast at Garig Gunak Barlu National Park on the Cobourg Peninsula, east of Darwin, when she found the turtle - also known as the Lepidochelys olivacea.
According to Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife, the sea creature is a threatened species.
Crocodylus Park owner Grahame Webb told NT News the forceful bite of a crocodile is about three tonnes.
'No other animal on the planet has a comparable bite force to a crocodile,'  he said.
Ms Best along with other rangers cut the dead turtle out of the net then planted a camera to film Cobourg wildlife eating the deceased reptile.
Among those animals include the saltwater croc and a Beach Stone-curlew, which is a large ground-dwelling bird.
Ms Best was collecting rubbish along the coast at Garig Gunak Barlu National Park on the Cobourg Peninsula, east of Darwin, when she found the turtle - also known as the Lepidochelys olivacea
Ms Best was collecting rubbish along the coast at Garig Gunak Barlu National Park on the Cobourg Peninsula, east of Darwin, when she found the turtle - also known as the Lepidochelys olivacea
Crocodylus Park owner Grahame Webb told NT News the forceful bite of a crocodile is about three tonnes
Crocodylus Park owner Grahame Webb told NT News the forceful bite of a crocodile is about three tonnes

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