The previous captive record-holder was a 17.97-foot-long (5.48-meter-long) Australian-caught saltwater crocodile. (See pictures of alligators and crocodiles.) 'I didn't expect to ever see a crocodile greater than 20 feet long in my lifetime, not an experience I will forget easily,' wrote Britton, senior partner of the Australia-based crocodilian research and consulting group Big Gecko. Initially wary of claims of record-breaking size, Britton blogged his congratulations to Lolong 'for amazing the skeptic in me.'
