When a mother crocodile leaves her nest unattended ... The mother returns to protect most of her eggs but the disturbance sets off a mass hatching. One nest saved by the neighborhood watch.

It's known for its mighty five-metre beasts, but this Darwin crocodile park also brings hundreds of baby hatchlings into the ...

Selling crocodile eggs is an important business for remote Indigenous rangers who brave Top End swamps to collect them for ...

Sometime around the end of dry season, females lay up to sixty eggs in a nest that they ... The female remains around the nest during incubation and will protect it against predators. I’ve found my ...

The nests contained 106 eggs, of which 66 were fertilised ... a few hundred individuals estimated in the wild, the hatching of 60 new crocodiles is a tremendous boost,” he added.

Eggs are taken into incubators ... where last year 60 crocodiles were recorded hatching in the wild—the highest number in a century. The growing population holds promise not just for the ...