'The crocodile management team received a report of a dead crocodile on the side of the road and were shocked at what they found,' the department's chief wildlife officer, Peter Ross, told ABC News.

A SCIENTIST is believed to have been eaten alive by a 17ft crocodile in a blood thirsty attack at an enclosure in Indonesia.

The draw for Australia's Davis Cup quarter-final against Kazakhstan in Darwin has been completed — by a monster crocodile lunging at dead chickens at a local tourism park.