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  • 1/18/2026: Minneapolis, Inside CECOT, Salties

    First, a top ICE official says no officers have been disciplined for Minneapolis actions. Then, tales of hell inside a Salvadoran mega-prison. And, coexisting with Australia’s deadly crocodiles.

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  • Celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright lied about helicopter crash that killed co-star in Australia, jury finds

    An Australian celebrity crocodile wrangler was found guilty Friday of lying to police and seeking to falsify flight records more than three years after a fatal helicopter crash.

    A jury convicted Matt Wright, star of the “Wild Croc Territory,” “Monster Croc Wrangler” and “Outback Wrangler” series, of two counts of perverting the course of justice, court documents showed.

    The month-long trial at Darwin Supreme Court followed a 2022 helicopter crash in the Northern Territory outback that killed his friend and co-star Chris Wilson and left the pilot a paraplegic.

    Wilson was dangling from the helicopter by a 100-foot line to collect crocodile eggs when it ran out of fuel and crashed, an air crash investigation found.

    Matt Wright (L), the star of Netflix show Wild Croc Territory and National Geographic’s Outback Wrangler, arrives with his wife Kaia Wright (R) at the Supreme Court in Darwin on August 12, 2025. 

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    Investigators at the time found that the operator was not using its safety management system to identify and manage operational hazards.

    The Northern Territory lets hunters collect wild crocodile eggs to help manage populations, allowing them to be sold to farms that use the reptiles to make leather.

    Wright was convicted of lying in a statement about the aircraft’s fuel level, and of encouraging the injured pilot to falsify flight records.

    The jury was unable to deliver a verdict on a third charge that he had instructed someone to destroy aircraft maintenance records.

    Acting Justice Alan Blow released Wright on bail ahead of an appeal, according to national broadcaster ABC.

    Speaking outside the court, Wright said he was “pretty disappointed” by the verdict, ABC reported.

    “It’s been a long fight and we’ve got an appeal in process now, and we’ll keep moving forward with this,” he said. “It’s been devastating for everyone involved.”

    Wilson’s widow, Danielle Wilson, attended the proceedings on each day of the trial, ABC reported. Speaking outside court on Friday, she said the day marked “an important moment in a long and painful journey,” the outlet reported.

    Wright is to be sentenced at a later date.

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  • Australian officials search for 12-year-old missing after reported crocodile attack

    Australian officials search for 12-year-old missing after reported crocodile attack

    A search for a missing 12-year-old who witnesses say was attacked by a crocodile in a remote Australian community has entered a “recovery phase,” according to the BBC. 

    The unidentified child was swimming in a creek in Nganmarriyanga, a small town in Australia’s Northern Territory, at dusk, according to a social media post from the region’s emergency services agency. The remote community is home to just over 360 people and is about a seven-hour drive from the city of Darwin, the BBC reported. 

    Initial reports said the child had been attacked by a crocodile, the agency said. 

    The Northern Territory’s Police, Fire and Emergency Services said area police and community members immediately began searching for the child. A search and rescue team has also been deployed and is continuing to search the area. The emergency services agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CBS News.  

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    A crocodile in shallow water.

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    On Wednesday morning, Northern Territory police minister Brent Potter told media, including the BBC, that the operation had entered a “recovery phase.”

    “It’s a tragic incident for any parent or family member to lose a young child, and especially in the circumstances like that, taken by a crocodile,” he told reporters.

    Potter said that wildlife officers have been authorized to “remove” the crocodile if they find it. 

    Crocodile attacks are rare, according to the BBC, but the region is home to about 100,000 saltwater crocodiles, more than anywhere else in the world. In the region, there have been two attacks in the past year — one in January 2024 and one in October 2023 — but neither were fatal. The last fatal attack in the Northern Territory was in 2018, the BBC said. Potter said the incident serves as a reminder to stay safe while in a crocodile’s habitat. 

    “We live in a place where crocodiles occupy our water places … it’s just a reminder to stay out of the water as best we can,” Potter said. 

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    Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News’ TODAY Digital. She covers current events, breaking news and issues including substance use.

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  • Florida man bitten by American crocodile in Everglades

    Florida man bitten by American crocodile in Everglades

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    A man in Florida is sharing his story of an attack by a rare American crocodile in Everglades National Park over the weekend. He was bitten, but managed to survive. It was one of two reptile attacks in the state on the same day.

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  • Study Finds Crocodiles Attracted To Distressed Cries Of Infants

    Study Finds Crocodiles Attracted To Distressed Cries Of Infants

    A study that played the sounds of human and other ape babies crying out over a speaker found that crocodiles were drawn to the noises, in particular to the shrieks that sounded the most distressed. What do you think?

    “Sounds like they’d make awesome therapy animals.”

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    “It’s a good thing my distressed cries are so manly.”

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    “This is just natural selection doing its part to weed out annoying kids.”

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  • Costa Rican soccer player killed in crocodile attack after jumping into river

    Costa Rican soccer player killed in crocodile attack after jumping into river

    Teammates, family and friends gathered in a shocked community in Costa Rica this week to pay their respects to a soccer player who was killed on July 30 by a crocodile after he jumped into a river known to be a habitat for the reptiles.

    Jesús “Chucho” Alberto López Ortiz, 29, who played for the local Deportivo Río Cañas soccer club, died Saturday after jumping from a bridge into the Cañas River in Santa Cruz, according to Costa Rican newspaper The Tico Times, which cited a local police official.

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    A tribute photo posted on social media by the Deportivo Río Cañas soccer club in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste region shows the team’s player Jesus “Chucho” Alberto Lopez Ortiz, who was killed by a crocodile on July 29, 2023.

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    The newspaper said witnesses reported seeing López Ortiz’s body being dragged underwater by the large reptile. 

    Costa Rican police officials shot and killed the crocodile to recover Ortiz’s remains, a Costa Rican Red Cross spokesperson told the local news outlet.

    Video posted on social media appeared to show the animal swimming in the river with López Ortiz’s body still clenched in its jaws, drawing a request from his team for any such clips to be removed.

    “Please respect the family’s pain and do not upload videos of what happened, and if you have uploaded them, please take them down, as there are children, a mother, a father, brothers and Jesús’ wife who deserve respect,” the team said in a Wednesday post. 

    A funeral procession was held for the player that same day. 

    “Today we said goodbye to you Chucho,” his team said in a Facebook message on Wednesday, adding that about 1,000 people joined the memorial service, “representing all your friends, family, and the whole country that was there with you.” 

    A crocodile swims in the Tarcoles River, the most polluted river in Central America, southwest of San Jose, Costa Rica, on November 21, 2022.
    A crocodile swims in the Tarcoles River, southwest of San Jose, Costa Rica, November 21, 2022.

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    Costa Rica is home to at least two types of crocodiles, including the American crocodile which is classed as an endangered species globally. It’s just one species from Costa Rica’s diverse wildlife, which draws thousands of tourists to the Central American nation every year.

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  • Man killed by 40 crocodiles that

    Man killed by 40 crocodiles that

    About 40 crocodiles killed a Cambodian man on Friday after he fell into their enclosure on his family’s reptile farm, police said.

    Luan Nam, 72, was trying to move a crocodile out of a cage where it had laid eggs when it grabbed the stick he was using as a goad and pulled him in.

    The main group of reptiles then set about him, tearing his body to pieces and leaving the concrete enclosure at the farm in Siem Reap awash with blood.

    “While he was chasing a crocodile out of an egg-laying cage, the crocodile attacked the stick, causing him to fall into the enclosure,” Mey Savry, police chief of Siem Reap commune, told AFP.

    “Then other crocodiles pounced, attacking him until he was dead,” he said, adding that the remains of Luan Nam’s body were covered with bite marks.

    One of the man’s arms was bitten off and swallowed by the crocodiles, he said.

    Luan Nam was the president of the local crocodile farmers’ association but his family may now sell his stock, after urging him for years to stop raising the reptiles, commune chief May Sameth told AFP.

    Local media reported that the victim was from Po Banteay Chey village.

    A two-year-old girl was killed and eaten by crocodiles in 2019 when she wandered into her family’s reptile farm in the same village, the police chief said.

    There are a number of crocodile farms around Siem Reap, the gateway city to the famed ruins of Angkor Wat.

    The reptiles are kept for their eggs, skins and meat as well as the trade in their young.

    The incident marks at least the second person killed by a crocodile this month. In early May, the remains of a missing 65-year-old fisherman in Australia were found inside two crocodiles.

    Last year, two American tourists were injured by a crocodile at a resort in Mexico when one went swimming in the ocean at night and the other went in the water to help him.

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  • Remains of missing Australian man found in crocodiles:

    Remains of missing Australian man found in crocodiles:

    The remains of an Australian man who went missing on a fishing trip in crocodile-infested waters have been found inside two of the reptiles, police said Wednesday.

    The 65-year-old victim, named in Australian media as Kevin Darmody, had gone fishing on Saturday in far north Queensland as part of a group who shooed away a crocodile so they could start fishing, police said.

    People fishing with the man, a pub manager, heard him “yell, scream very loudly, followed by a large splashing of water,” said Cairns police inspector Mark Henderson.

    Rangers later used rifles to shoot and kill two crocodiles — one measuring about 14 feet and the other nine feet — found upstream from where the group was fishing within Lakefield National Park.

    Examinations found human remains in both of the predators, police said.

    Henderson described it as a “tragic, tragic ending.”

    The man was “a very nice fellow” from the rural north Queensland town of Laura, which has a population of about 130 people, Henderson said.

    Queensland state wildlife official Michael Joyce urged people to be wary.

    “This is croc country. If you are in water and especially if you are in Lakefield, which is declared specifically for crocodile conservation, you should expect crocodiles in that water.”


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  • Witte Museum Paleontologist Names New Species of Fossil Crocodile

    Witte Museum Paleontologist Names New Species of Fossil Crocodile

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    SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 14, 2017 (Newswire.com)
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    Dr. Thomas Adams, Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, has described and named a new species of fossil crocodile discovered in North Texas. Dr. Adams, the lead author of a paper outlining the find, describes Deltasuchus motherali as one of the “top predators in its ecosystem.”

    As Curator of Paleontology and Geology, Dr. Adams developed the content for the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery at the Witte Museum which includes Deinocuchus riograndensis, another prehistoric crocodile that lived in what we now call Texas. The giant prehistoric crocodile is one of the most popular ancient animals in the dinosaur gallery.

    Dr. Thomas Adams, Witte Museum Curator of Paleontology and Geology, has described and named a new species of fossil crocodile discovered in North Texas. Dr. Adams, the lead author of a paper outlining the find, describes Deltasuchus motherali as one of the ‘top predators in its ecosystem.’

    Dr. Thomas Adams, Curator of Paleontology and Geology

    Deltasuchus, a relative of modern crocodiles, lived around 95 million years ago, and ruled the coastlines and waterways of what would one day become north-central Texas. Adults of the newly discovered and described species Deltasuchus motherali grew up to 20 feet (6 meters) long, and left behind bite marks on the fossilized bones of prey animals, suggesting that it was an opportunistic animal, eating much of what was in its environment, from turtles to dinosaurs.

    Dr. Adams, along with co-authors Drs. Chris Noto, at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, at the University of Tennessee, published the description of the new croc species in the latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. A unique aspect of the find is that it was discovered in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a place that normally is not associated with ancient fossils.

    The site that produced the new species was discovered in Arlington, Texas, in 2003 by amateur fossil hunters Art Sahlstein, Bill Walker and Phil Kirchoff. Dubbed the Arlington Archosaur Site (AAS), the area is undergoing rapid residential development, and paleontologists have been working with local volunteers and fossil enthusiasts to excavate the site over the last decade. Deltasuchus motherali is named for one of those volunteers, Austin Motheral, who first uncovered the fossils of this particular croc with a small tractor when he was 15 years old. Work on the site is supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society, which is funding continued excavations and study of this unique fossil locality. Fossils from the site, including the Deltasuchus motherali bones, are part of the collections of the nearby Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas.

    Deltasuchus is the first of what may prove to be several new species described from this prolific fossil site. The locality preserves a surprisingly complete ancient ecosystem ranging from 95 million to 100 million years old, and its fossils are filling in an important gap in our understanding of ancient North American land and freshwater ecosystems. While most of Texas was covered by a shallow sea at this time, the Dallas-Fort Worth area was part of a large peninsula that jutted out into this sea from the northeast. This peninsula was a lush environment of river deltas and swamps that teemed with wildlife, including dinosaurs, crocodiles, turtles, mammals, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, as well as plants.

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    About the Witte Museum:

    Founded in 1926, the Witte Museum is where Science, Nature and Culture Meet, through the lens of Texas Deep Time, and the themes of Land, Water, Sky. Located on the banks of the San Antonio River in Brackenridge Park, the Witte Museum is San Antonio’s premier museum promoting lifelong learning through innovative exhibitions, programs and collections in natural history, science and South Texas heritage.

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