A 22-month old boy miraculously survived a python five times his size locking its jaws around his arm and coiling itself around his tiny body in Julatten, northern Queensland.

A German zookeeper had a narrow escape on Saturday when a 13-foot Tiger python clasped itself onto her face in an attempt to devour her, Bild newspaper reported.

A pet python has been found after it managed to escape into an art gallery in Aberdeenshire. The 3m (10ft) long snake - named Bodhi - is kept at a property above Studio 1 shop and gallery in Banchory.

The great escape of a Burmese Python was short lived when residents of Anglesey, North Wales, spotted it trying to slither away. The snake, which was photographed by a police officer, apparently ...