Magic of Darwin creates a little bit of luck between a croc and hard place

By Anne Tarasov
September 24 2012 - 3:00am
''It was such a cute crocodile that the girl initially looking after it assumed it was a female and the name has stuck'' ... saltwater crocodile Pearl defied the odds against its survival.
''It was such a cute crocodile that the girl initially looking after it assumed it was a female and the name has stuck'' ... saltwater crocodile Pearl defied the odds against its survival.

AS RARE as the gemstone it was named after, mostly pigment-free saltwater crocodile Pearl has been described as ''doubly lucky'' for having survived at all.

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