A python in Queensland, Australia, got quite a scratchy surprise when the 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) snake gulped down a tennis ball this week. Luckily for the reptile, veterinarians were able to ...

A trained snake handler spent an incredible 20 minutes massaging a tennis ball out of the mouth of a python. She gently pushed the ball up the reptile's delicate neck step by step until it was ...

Instead, it found a native cottonmouth snake, with the python and its tracker ingested inside. X-ray images released by the zoo show the consumed snake's spine and the tracker visible inside the ...