VILLAGERS IN THE PHILIPPINES have managed to catch a 21-foot-long, one-tonne crocodile ... is the biggest to have been caught alive for years – and may be the largest specimen ever found.

Cassius was known as the ... was caught close to a cattle station on the Finniss River in the Northern Territory of Australia, southwest of Darwin. The record for the largest crocodile ever ...

The reptile, which is thought to be have been more than 110 years old, was 5.48m in length and weighed more than 1300kg. Cassius, the world’s longest crocodile died in captivity, has died.

Cassius held the Guinness world record for the largest living crocodile in captivity ... he would have reached maximum size when he was caught at 80 years old," Professor Webb said.