if you see a Crocodile don't forget to smile 😊 The Sa Pobla Wetland Mystery.

The Sa Pobla Wetland Mystery,in the 1800s, Sa Pobla was a highly agricultural region defined by dense, stagnant wetlands and labyrinthine irrigation canals. 

Field workers and farmers began spreading frantic oral accounts of a massive, scaled reptile lurking inside a local drainage ditch. Because crocodiles are not native to Spain, two local theories emerged. The first was that a merchant sailor accidentally let a tropical specimen loose. The second and most loved theory claims that an eccentric old smuggler kept the reptile as an exotic pet. When the Guardia Civil arrested him, he hastily released the beast into the marshlands to destroy the evidence, where it supposedly thrived out of sight.

The Reality Behind the Myth, the Palma "dragon" was an African crocodile brought to Mallorca aboard an international trading vessel. It managed to escape its cage and survive in the humid, subterranean sewer system.The Rosselló family displayed the mummified reptile every New Year’s Eve for generations. Today, you can still view the original, taxidermied 17th-century beast inside a glass display case at the Museu d’Art Sacre de Mallorca (formerly the Diocesan Museum). To celebrate this heritage, a permanent 3-metre floating sculpture of the crocodile was unveiled in Palma's Parc de la Mar lake.