Super Killer Crocs: Official Description
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 17th, 2009
Last weekend’s marathon of hairy beasts is followed by a more watery selection, for this Wednesday night-Thursday morning. (It takes place on the History network, and the times listed are Eastern, so check your local listing.)
MonsterQuest: Killer Jellyfish
Airs on Wednesday June 17 08:00 PM; Thursday June 18 12:00 AM
The most venomous creature of the sea is on the move and spreading across the oceans leaving a trail of baffled scientists and poisoned victims. These gelatinous monsters, which have been known to kill within three minutes, have been part of the ocean’s ecosystem for more than 500 million years. However, changes to the seas and global warming may mean that mankind himself is creating this population explosion. Blooms of these floating death traps have been reported from New York’s Hudson River to the beaches of Spain and have even shut down a nuclear power station in Japan. While little is known about many jellyfish species, new research is unravelling some frightening details: these creatures are not simply drifting blobs, but have an intelligence that proves that they are an apex predator of the sea.
MonsterQuest: Killer Crocs
Airs on Wednesday June 17 09:00 PM; Thursday June 18 01:00 AM
Across the world, people are reporting increasingly frequent encounters with frighteningly large crocodiles. Millions of years ago prehistoric cousins to today’s crocodiles stalked the earth, ate dinosaurs and grew to enormous sizes. Known as ‘Super Crocs’, these massive beasts were apex predators that grew to lengths of up to 40 feet and could weigh as much as eight tons. Today, record-size crocs max out at just over 20 feet, but witnesses are saying crocodiles are getting much bigger. MonsterQuest takes to the mangrove swamps and rivers of Florida where biologists will track down an American Crocodile larger than any seen before. The Science Team also investigates whether the record-sized killer crocodile could actually be a modern day Super Croc.
Using the latest high-tech equipment, MonsterQuest takes a scientific look at legendary creatures around the world, creatures eyewitnesses claim to see to this day. Each episode will examine all the evidence available, from pictures and video to hair and bones, as well as the eyewitness accounts themselves. Believers, skeptics and scientists will weigh in, but what will the evidence reveal?
- Similar Phenomena:
I just so happened to be channel surfing and decided to just see what this episode was about……and got hooked! We actually saw visual evidence of the specimens…that 20 foot croc was massive! And then the 16-18 footer in Florida (a record) was incredible, as well!
Three things impressed me about that episode:
1) MQ actually went to known areas of the sightings for the expeditions (unlike the Ape Island episode where they went out of their way to map out where the majority of the sightings occurred, only to go to the complete OPPOSITE side of the island, where no sightings had been reported, to “track down the elusive beast”).
2) MQ actually had clear, unmistakeable visual evidence of the over 20ft. croc in India, as well as the 16-18ft. croc in florida, whereas they usually overhype/oversell what they pick up on radars and such to get viewers to tune in….this time they really had something!
3) MQ actually delivered! No inconclusive results.
Of course, it was an impressive episode. They weren’t hunting monsters or cryptids; they were hunting a known animal in a known place. 18-20 ft crocs aren’t unknown and there’s plenty of evidence for them living in populated areas.