1. Adam Britton is a scientist who lives in Darwin, Australia. Gil Diamond is a scientist who
lives in New Jersey, USA. They are both interested in crocodiles. Crocodiles spend most
of their lives in very dirty water. The water has a lot of harmful bacteria in it if we drank
it. We would become very sick. Crocodiles often fight and cut each other and the dirty
water gets into their blood. But they never get sick. Adam and Gil thought there night
be something in the crocodiles’ blood that protects them from the bacteria in the water.
They decided to work together to find out.
2. First Adam had to find some crocodile blood. This was a difficult and dangerous job! He
had to travel hundreds of kilometers find and catch a wild crocodile. When he caught
one, he took some blood from it. Then he sent the blood to Gil in America.
3. Gil separated the crocodile blood into many parts, and put each part into a test tube
then he put some bacteria into each test tube. The next day, he saw something amazing.
In lest tube number 13, all the bacteria were died. Gil put more and more bacteria into
this test tube. Each time, all the bacteria died. Gil knew there was something special in
test tube 13. He called it crocodillian. Adam and Gil hope that doctors will one day he
able to use crocodillian to stop people getting sick.