In the kind of nightmare scenario dreaded by anyone contemplating a visit to Australia, a woman in Brisbane woke up with a heavy weight on her chest, only to find that it was an 8ft-long python.

A Brisbane woman calmly removed an 8-foot carpet python from her bedroom after waking to find the non-venomous snake on top of her chest Monday night.

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom ...

Ms Bloor suspects the carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal areas, squeezed through the plantation shutters on her window and onto her bed and eventually ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.

When Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor felt something heavy on her, she initially thought it was her labradoodle - it was a 2.5m snake.

A Brisbane woman has woken to a terrifying surprise after a 2.5-metre python slipped through her bedroom window and curled up ...

ENDED UP IN THEIR BUILDING. I MEAN, SNAKE LIKE THAT. I DON’T EVEN LIKE THE LITTLE ONES. NEVER MIND THE BIG ONES LIKE THAT. CHUCK VAN COPPENOLLE IS, WELL, A LITTLE SPOOKED WHEN YOU SEE HOW BIG THE ...