crocodile

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“Powdered stone worked. So did lizard’s blood and crocodile dung, and pig’s teeth and dolphin’s genitalia and frog’s sperm,” as psychologist Irving Kirsch later explained it.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2026

In the early 1800s, Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, the fossil-hunting Marchioness of Hastings, collected skulls of crocodile relatives from the area, including one that Richard Owen later named after her.

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

Celebrity crocodile wrangler Matt Wright will spend five months in prison for tampering with evidence after a helicopter crash that killed his co-star and left the pilot a paraplegic.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

“I catch crocodiles, and a crocodile has never managed to screw up my ribs like that,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025

“Are you keeping that crocodile in your room?”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton