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Lolong the Crocodile helped prove that giant crocs could and do exist in the wild. This amazing animal measure 6.17 meters - 20.2 feet - from snout to tail, and he weighed an astounding 2,370 pounds. In 2012, Lolong was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest saltwater crocodile in captivity. He was kept captive as rumors that he had killed and eaten a farmer before his capture began to spread. Out of worry that the local farmers and villagers would kill him, he was kept safe in an exhibit. LoLong passed away on  the 10th of February, 2013. According to his autopsy, he died of pneumonia and cardiac arrest. 

Giant Crocodiles have been reported very often in history but until Lolong was discovered, it was not known that one could grow to such an extreme size.