Does a python as long as a Holden Commodore have the “drive” to become Australia’s longest snake in captivity? Staff at Cairns Aquarium - Pretzel’s new home - are hopeful. Pretzel, the scrub python, ...

Cairns Snake Catcher has been called out to five homes in the past week to remove large scrub pythons that have been raiding chickens in people’s backyards. Reptile removalist Matt Hagan’s new ...

A beast of a scrub python weighing in at 30kg is thought to be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of a ginger cat from a southern Cairns suburb. The python was found in the front yard of a ...

IT’S almost too hard to stomach — the second pet pooch swallowed by a snake in as many weeks. This time the shocked owners grabbed the predator ... and a camera. A devastated North Queensland family ...