James Stewart

Three new crocodilian species were discovered during this process, one of which was between 4.5 and 7 meters long.

Another beast they found had a death bite capable of piercing a shell half a meter thick.

This truly was shaping up to be the land of the giants.

So they bagged up all these different bits and pieces they could find in plaster casts and sent them back to Gainesville in Florida for Block and his team to analyse.

And they kept this up for five years.

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When you make content and present stuff on TV, you expect

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As we head back to our search for the world's largest snake.

It was now 2007, and Alex Hastings, a then grad student at the University of Florida, was going about his now daily task of unwrapping the vast array of packages that landed on his door from Columbia.