The coloration in the crocodile's skin allows it to blend into its environment, providing camouflage from other creatures. A croc's skin also plays an important role in the animal's temperature ...

In response, he's taken care of some of the crocs in a specially-designed farm ... of bolstering the local economy through the crocodile skin trade. That industry is controversial because of ...

They soon discovered the soft belly skin of the crocodile to be far more valuable ... 1971 in the Northern Territory when fewer than 3,000 crocs were estimated to remain out of a former population ...

There's now thought to be more than 100,000 saltwater crocs in the Top End — and quite a lot more croc poop. Crocodile excrement, like that of most animals, contains nitrogen and phosphorous ...