Brown snake filmed swallowing python whole in Australia

This is the shocking moment a deadly brown snake was filmed EATING a python.

Snake catcher Sally Hill, who was called to the incident in the state of Queensland, said she had never seen anything like it before.

She added that the snake, spotted at a house near Brisbane, north-east Australia, took more than three hours to finish off its prey.

“We’ve never seen something like this before, it’s very rare any snake catcher gets an opportunity to witness something like this,” she said.

“We always heard the old saying ‘if you’ve got a carpet python you won’t have a brown’, so obviously that’s a myth.”

“We just put him into the bag, if you disturb them too much they’ll regurgitate their meal and it’s just a waste,” she said.

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Brown snakes, found throughout the eastern half of the mainland, are the deadliest in Australia, causing more deaths per year than any other.

Quick, aggressive and bad-tempered, brown snakes also possess venom that is ranked as the second most toxic of any land snake in the world.

Its venom causes progressive paralysis and prevents the blood from clotting.

The species average around 1.5m in total length, although the largest ever measured was over 2m long.