The field was about a half mile from her house, surrounded by cliffs, caves and a certain number of reticulated pythons, the longest snakes in the world. The snakes normally feed on smaller mammals.

A concerned resident in Legazpi City, Albay turned over a juvenile reticulated python or "sawa" to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Bicol. According to DENR Bicol, Rey ...

Reticulated pythons typically kill their prey by biting and then constricting them until they can no longer breathe, before consuming them, according to The Associated Press.

News Rob Currell 14:00, 28 May 2025 Updated 14:16, 28 May 2025 The woman was killed and eaten whole by a python (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) ...

In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a seven-metre python, again in Southeast Sulawesi. A year before that, a farmer from West Sulawesi was found swallowed by a four-metre python on a palm oil ...

They suspect a territorial dispute may have led to one python eating the other. The Burmese python and the reticulated python are the only types of python found in Bangladesh and they are both on the ...