Science news this week: Crocodile mysteries and spindles in space

We have gone cuckoo for crocodiles this week, with at least 5 tales on the sizable snappers.

First, we reported on the orange crocs of Nepal, after which, on a person’s unbelievable escape from the jaws of loss of life, earlier than we swiftly moved on to the primary recorded case of a crocodile “virgin beginning.” Perhaps the croc born of this miraculous conception may reside to the ripe outdated age of Cassius, the world’s oldest crocodile, who turned (about) 120 years outdated this week.