A carpet python "saved from certain death" after being rescued from a Gold Coast pool is being treated for anaemia after having more than 500 ticks removed from its body, a wildlife hospital says.

A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive by hundreds of ticks will almost assuredly give you the creeps. It’s ...

Pictures Showing Python Covered With 500 Ticks Go Viral: 'It Felt Like 'Holding A Bag of Marbles' Published Jan 11, 2019 at 7:51 AM EST Updated Jan 11, 2019 at 9:10 AM EST.

However, before the python could be humanely euthanized, someone had to reach into a mound of sawgrass and grab the snake by the head — likely bursting multiple blood-filled ticks in the process.