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From ABC.
More at the link above including a gallery of snakes eating various other animals.
Two men driving across a Kimberley river crossing late at night could not believe their eyes when they found a large snake eating a crocodile.
A tangle of scaly bodies caught the eye of Wayne Chevis while he was driving with a friend on Sunday from his workplace at the Lake Argyle Caravan Park to Darwin, to catch a flight to be at a wedding in Tasmania.
A large python had grabbed a freshwater crocodile at the river crossing on the road to Lake Argyle, and was constricting the reptile with coils of its muscular body.
"The snake, I reckon if you dragged him out and measured him he probably would have been about two-and-a-half, almost three metres long," Mr Chevis said.
"He was quite a big snake, quite thick."
Despite the ferocious reputation of crocodiles, this time the croc was the hapless victim, according to Mr Chevis.
"There were no injuries on the snake at all, so I think the snake had the upper hand completely in that little battle that was happening," he said.
Having grown up in Kakadu National Park where his stepfather was a ranger, Mr Chevis has witnessed snakes eating a range of animals, but never a crocodile.
More at the link above including a gallery of snakes eating various other animals.
