Rachel Bloor had assumed the heavy weight on her chest was her dog.

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.

It's fair to say when a Brisbane resident woke up to discover a carpet python curled up on top of her, she was rattled.

Rachel Bloor got the shock of her life after she reached out to stroke what she thought was her pet dog in Brisbane, ...

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

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The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

A video that went viral in August 2023 authentically depicted a giant carpet python crawling from a house roof to trees in an Australian yard. Carpet pythons can be intimidating as they can grow up to ...

CANBERRA: When an Australian woman woke up from her sleep in the middle of the night with a weight on her body, she thought ...

Extraordinary footage has emerged of a carpet python consuming a possum while dangling from a roof rafter in a shed. See the video. The impressive show of strength from the reptile was captured by ...