Authorities still baffled by headless crocodile found on north Queensland beach

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Wildlife photographer who examined the reptile says its head was obviously surgically removed'

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The mystery of a headless crocodile found on a beach in far north Queensland has baffled authorities and set the internet buzzing with theories of an interspecies face-off, but experts say it's likely a human took the animal's head.

The four-metre-long saltwater crocodile was found dead and decapitated on a sandbank near Cow Bay on the edge of the Daintree Rainforest, about 120km north of Cairns, on 12 April.

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