Characteristics: Emerald tree boa: Green tree python: Size: Up to 6 feet in length, heavier and more muscular. Around 5 feet in length, more slender and less muscular.

The determined carpet python refused to lose its dinner, hanging from the tree for 30 minutes with the possum's snout clenched in its jaws. "Oh my God. I can't believe that thing has grip," a ...