World's biggest crocodile is dead: 110-year-old Cassius passes away in Australia after weeks of declining health

The world's largest crocodile has died successful captivity astatine the property of 110.

Cassius who weighed much than 1 ton and measured 18 feet long, had been successful declining wellness since October his caretakers said.

The beast held the Guinness World Record arsenic the world's largest a saltwater crocodile successful captivity. 

He took the rubric aft the 2013 decease of Philippines crocodile Lolong, who measured 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in) long, according to Guinness.

Before his beingness successful captivity the knobbly monster was known to prowl the waterways of Australia earlier being taken to Marineland Marineland Melanesia Crocodile Habitat connected Green Island, disconnected the seashore of Cairns, Queensland. 

In a station connected Facebook, his caretakers said: 'He was precise aged and believed to beryllium surviving beyond the years of a chaotic Croc.

'Cassius volition beryllium profoundly missed, but our emotion and memories of him volition stay successful our hearts forever.'

The group's website said helium had lived astatine the sanctuary since 1987 aft being transported from the neighbouring Northern Territory.

Crocodiles are a cardinal portion of the region's tourer manufacture and Cassius became the prima attraction.

Cassius, a crocodile notorious for causing trouble, was captured successful 1984 adjacent a cattle presumption connected the Finniss River, southwest of Darwin successful Australia's Northern Territory.

At the clip of his capture, Cassius was estimated to beryllium betwixt 30 and 80 years aged and acceptable the grounds arsenic the largest crocodile ever captured live successful Australia.

'He had these large eyes that you'd look into and you could look into his soul,' 1 of his erstwhile keepers, Toody Scott, told AAP.

'He ever had this spark astir him, which is precise antithetic to moving with different crocs.'

Three years aft his capture, helium was moved to Green Island by crocodile huntsman George Craig, who had founded Marineland Melanesia backmost successful 1969.

Scott said the croc had an particularly adjacent enslaved with his caretaker Craig and the brace would beryllium softly unneurotic for ‘hours connected end’.

Scott said: 'In the past mates of years, George has been getting astir connected a mobility scooter and each clip helium came adjacent the enclosure, Cassius would travel implicit to him.'