Steve Irwin (rugby league) Steve Irwin (rugby league) Steven "Steve" Irwin (born 19 June 1983 in Queensland, Australia) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. While attending St. Lukes Anglican School, Irwin played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2000. Irwin, affectionately nicknamed "Croc" after the TV personality the Crocodile Hunter of the same name, made a remarkable rise to first grade football in just 5 years. He spent much of his youth playing soccer before picking up Rugby League at the age of 14. He moved to the Canberra Raiders. In 2010, it was revealed that Irwin was playing for Bundaberg in
Saltwater crocodile Asian crocodile, although some ambiguity exists over what assemblage it could be considered part of based on variable genetic results. Other relatively broad-snouted species such as mugger ("C. palustris") and Siamese crocodiles ("C. siamensis") seem to be the most likely candidates to bear the closest relation among living species. Currently, most sources state that the saltwater crocodile does not have subspecies. However, based largely on morphological variability, some have claimed that not only are there subspecies but that "C. porosus" actually houses a species complex. In 1844, S. Müller and H. Schlegel attempted to describe crocodiles from Java and Borneo