A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.

Australia is home to the amethystine python. It is also known as scrub python. This non-venomous snake is among the largest pythons. It thrives in rai ...

Siam has since grown to a whopping 4.572 metres long. Mr Wiedman said that was about average for a captive scrub python, while wild ones usually grew to about 5 or 5.5 metres.

Sydney Zoo's largest snake, a 17-foot scrub python, is weighed by keepers on July 14, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. The scrub python that attacked Lee-Ann Mears was 12 feet in length.

He is believed to be the largest Australian native snake in captivity and at his latest health check-up, Maximus the scrub python has measured in at a gigantic 5.1 metres. At his home at Currumbin ...

Cape York parents wake to find scrub python wrapped around their son When Nev and Emma Jackson heard their son crying in his room, they rushed in to find a rogue python wrapped around him.