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SUNDAY TIMES (Perth, Australia) 07 August 05 Jaws versus jaws
This was the astonishing real-life moment when two of nature's most dangerous predators clashed in a fight to the death.
In a violent struggle, captured by a mystery photographer, a hungry crocodile stalked and then attacked this shark on a northern Australian mud flat.
Territory ranger and croc catcher Tom Nichols said this week that he had never seen anything like it.
"I've seen crocs with barra or other fish in their jaws, but never a shark," Mr Nichols said.
The unknown photographer took three stunning photos within seconds of each other as the croc savaged the shark.
Crocs are territorial and the bull shark never had a chance once it entered the big saltie's domain.
The pictures were shot near the north Queensland town of Weipa.
Jaws versus jaws

THE AGE (Melbourne, Australia) 02 August 05 Hold the front page!
They do things differently in Darwin. Just ask the Sunday paper's editor, Peter Brown, who was responsible for the outstanding front-page photograph it ran in its weekend edition, a shot of a crocodile hunting down a shark; a rare event in anyone's language; the poor shark with a terrified look on its face as the croc moved in for the kill, somewhere off Darwin.
It turns out that Brown had come across the amazing picture weeks ago but held off publishing until now, firstly because he had no idea who took the picture and valiantly tried to track him down but, more importantly, because he wanted a bigger reading audience to see it and reckoned that waiting for everyone to arrive for the cup was the perfect way of doing so.

{Paperboy's Note: I am VERY confused. This item is written on 02 August as if the author had seen the item, which I found posted for the first time on the 7th-8th. Maybe a misprint on this item as for when it was published. Second, from time-to-time, some of the press organisations may play with their story presentation in order to get the most exposure ... sound familiar?. Cheers, Wes}
Hold the front page!