Rachel Bloor got the shock of her life after she reached out to stroke what she thought was her pet dog in Brisbane, ...

Carpet pythons are constrictors that are common in coastal areas of Australia, and usually eat small mammals such as birds.

A Brisbane woman woke up to find a two-and-a-half-metre carpet python lying on top of her in bed, Australian media reported.

To the surprise of Dylan Wallis, Head of Reptiles at the Australian Reptile Park, the snake was a coastal carpet python, a ...