You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

A dolphin can easily kill a shark with its snout.

You never think of a shark being afraid of anything, but dolphins scare these usually fearsome predators because they actually use their snouts as a battering ram to kill them.

The dolphin’s snout is made of thick, solid bone, and dolphins have been known to position themselves under the shark and ram their snout into its underbelly, causing severe internal injuries.

[Lee Stewart]

The hippo and the dolphin may be related.

Scientists believe that dolphins and hippos evolved from the same four-footed land animal that walked the Earth some 40 million years ago. According to post-doctoral fellow Jean-Renaud Boisserie and other scholars at University of California, Berkeley, the hippopotamus was long believed to be related to the pig, but molecular evidence from fossils show otherwise.

The hippo is most closely related to cetaceans, which includes dolphins, porpoises and whales.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

Green Island, Australia - Cassius, the largest crocodile living in captivity, recently turned 120 years old and he's still growing, leaving scientists stunned at his longevity!

A saltwater crocodile, Cassius stretches out to a whopping length of 17 feet and 11.75 inches, making him the largest captive crocodile in the world – and he owns a Guinness world record to prove it!

And the most surprising thing about Cassius is that he's still growing.

Graeme Webb helped capture the croc in 1984 and he determined Cassius has grown 13 inches in the last 20 years.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

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