Meet the top 10 largest crocodiles in the world and history. These prehistoric crocodiles are really gigantic, you won't believe they really existed.
-Purussaurus
This is an extinct giant lived in South America in the Miocene. A 4.7 feet long skull was found in Brazil, that’s why it’s estimated that this specie measured 41 feet long and weighed 8.4 tons, making this one of the biggest crocodiles in history.
-Mourasuchus
This extinct crocodile lived in the Miocene and its fossils were found in Peru. It’s thought that it measured 30 feet in length.
-Smilosuchus
It’s also an extinct specimen that lived in the late stage of the Triassic period in north America.
-Deinosuchus
It was an extinct specie that could reach 39 feet in length and weight 8.5 tons.
-Sarcosuchus
This specie reached 36 and 39 feet in leght, because of this size it received the name of Super Croc, with which it has become famous.
-Rhamphosuchus
This crocodile used to live in the Ganges river, in India, during the Miocene.
-Gryposuchus
This extinct crocodile lived in south America between 23 million and 700 thousand years ago, in the Miocene, Pliocene and beginnings of the Pleistocene.
-Stomatosuchus
It was a 32.8 feet crocodile that lived in the late cretaceous in Egypt. It had a plain head seen from the top that looks a lot like a cricket bat.
-Rutiodon
Was a reptile genre that lived at the end of the Triassic period, its name means creased. It measured 26 feet in length and its fossils had been found in the east part of the united states.
-Machimosaurus
This prehistoric crocodile specimen reached the length of 23.6 feet. It lived in the late Jurassic and early cretaceous era, which means this was contemporaneous to the dinosaurs.
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