{"id":277618,"date":"2026-02-10T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277618\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:40:22","slug":"whats-that-in-the-ocean-oh-its-a-massive-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/277618\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s That in the Ocean? Oh, It&#8217;s a Massive Crocodile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, the most-feared animal in the ocean is a shark, but what if you came across a massive crocodile swimming off the coast of your local beach? Four Mile Beach in Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia, is a popular beach for swimming and recreating in the ocean\u2014for both humans and crocs, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/selfie-with-crocodile-statue-goes-wrong-because-its-a-real-croc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Selfie With \u2018Crocodile Statue\u2019 Goes Wrong Because It\u2019s a Real Croc<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas L\u2019Eveille was walking on the beach when he looked out into the water and spotted the large reptile. He recorded a video, and news outlets picked it up, spreading his video widely. <\/p>\n<p>Check out a large croc swimming in the ocean here:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by Nilanka Sampath\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Typically, the most-feared animal in the ocean is a shark, but what if you came across a massive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,8166,111,139,69,147,406,97394],"class_list":["post-277618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-australia","tag-crocodile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}