A postmortem examination has revealed that Cassius, an 18-foot-long (5.5 meters) captive crocodile that died last year in Australia at the age of about 120, succumbed to sepsis.
An infection from an injury that Cassius sustained in the wild more than 40 years ago burst out of a fibrous casing and "engulfed" the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), killing him suddenly, Sally Isberg, the managing director of the Center for Crocodile Research in Darwin who conducted the examination, told ABC News.
