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 ...

There’s something about being very big (or very small!) that makes an animal automatically more charming. And it doesn’t get much bigger than the amethystine python, or as Australians up in the north ...

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.

The Cairns Aquarium has received a very large scrub python which is settling in to its new home. Pretzel is 4.5 metres long and 15 kilograms in weight.

Cairns Aquarium given 4.5m long snake, which it hopes will become Australia’s longest python Does a python as long as a Holden Commodore have the “drive” to become Australia’s longest ...