In ancient Greece, the Ouroboros, or snake-eating-its-own-tail ... shedding its skin and this is what was happening. It's a Stimson's Python and has managed to shed completely within itself ...

Arms spread and mouth agape - this is the moment a mouse appeared to be pleading for help as it was suffocated by a 3ft-long python before ... can be trained to eat frozen mice, most will only ...

The Stimson’s Python specimen somehow managed ... Credit: Aquarius the water bearer The snake eating its own tail is the symbol for Ouroboros, which is a Greek word meaning ‘tail devourer’.