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 ...

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.

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.

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.

Pretzel, the scrub python, has been donated to the aquarium by a Cairns resident whose pet had outgrown her home. The 4.5m long male reptile belongs to the longest snake species in Australia ...