Animal experts say the boy and girl, aged five and seven, watched as the scrub python devoured their silky terrier-Chihuahua crossbreed Monday at their home near Kuranda in Queensland state.

Snake handler Les Harris of Cardwell caught on a local property this 4.5m scrub python weighing in at 17.4 kg. It is one of the biggest snakes Les has ever caught in his 26 years of snake-wrangling.

An enormous 5.2-metre-long scrub python weighing a whopping 26.4kg had tightly coiled itself around a downpipe — and it wasn’t budging. “When I saw him I was like, ‘oh geez, this is big ...

Matt Hagan from Cairns Snake Catchers said the scrub python was curled right up at the entrance of the duck enclosure at a Queensland property, searching for a tasty meal.

Experts believe if Amanda Rutland had not intervened, the scrub python would have eaten her 22-month-old son, Naish. Ms Rutland believed the python had been stalking the pint-sized child for months.

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A 4.6m long scrub python consuming a large wallaby at Wongaling Beach. Photo: Neil Gallie Mr Gallie suggested large pythons in the beachside community had been assisting with the cull.

The amethystine python grows to enormous lengths — some up to 26 feet (8 meters), though the average is 10 to 16 feet. They are short and muscular, perfect for constriction.

Sydney - A woman in northern Australia rushed into her back garden when she heard her fox terrier puppy yelping in terror, to find a 4.2m scrub python coiling itself around the little dog. Joelle ...

Animal experts say the boy and girl, aged five and seven, watched as the scrub python devoured their silky terrier-Chihuahua crossbreed Monday at their home near Kuranda in Queensland state.