Footage of the capture, shared by police, shows an officer and the 4.5-metre-long crocodile hanging from a rope suspended from the helicopter.

South African police captain Johan 'Pottie' Potgieter has been praised for his 'extraordinary bravery' after retrieving the corpse of the killer croc.

In a shocking operation out of South Africa, police airlifted a 15-foot crocodile suspected of eating a missing 59-year-old businessman, only to confirm those fears during a post-recovery examination.

The crocodile was euthanised after Gabriel Batista, a hotel owner, went missing. Batista’s suspected remains were found inside the reptile.

Captions suggest the incidents occurred at the Annan River in Cooktown — the area from which the 40-year-old NSW man was ...

Human remains believed to belong to missing 59-year-old businessman, Gabriel Batista, have been recovered from the intestines of a 15-foot crocodile after a dramatic helicopter operation in South ...

A massive crocodile suspected of eating a missing businessman was airlifted by helicopter from South Africa's Komati River after being euthanized.

A host of unique crocodylian species ruled the roost in Australia and surrounds for millions of years – until humans came ...

Israel said it culled 200 crocodiles at an abandoned farm on a settlement in the occupied West Bank, reporting the reptiles had resorted to cannibalism and posed a "significant risk" to humans. The ...