‘SWAMP KING’: Prehistoric Australian crocodile was over five metres long

Australian researchers dubbed a newly classified prehistoric crocodile the “swamp king,” believing it could have been as long as five metres and would resemble its modern day descendants if they were “on steroids.”

Findings by Jorgo Ristevski, a doctoral student at the University of Queensland, and his colleagues were published this week the journal PeerJ.

Since 1886, researchers have called prehistoric crocodiles of that era Pallimnarchus pollens, based on fossil fragments found in…