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An Australian domestic flight was delayed for two hours after a stowaway snake was found in the plane’s cargo hold, officials said on Wednesday.

The snake was found on Tuesday as passengers were boarding Virgin Australia Flight VA337 at Melbourne Airport bound for Brisbane, according to snake catcher Mark Pelley.

The snake turned out to be a harmless 2-foot green tree snake.

The Snake Hunter, Mark Pelley, lifts the harmless 2-foot stowaway green tree snake from the cargo hold of a plane at Melbourne Airport on July 1, 2025. AP

But Pelly said he thought it could be venomous when he approached it in the darkened hold.

“It wasn’t until after I caught the snake that I realized that it wasn’t venomous. Until that point, it looked very dangerous to me,” Pelley said.

Most of the world’s most venomous snakes are native to Australia.

When Pelley entered the cargo hold, the snake was half hidden behind a panel and could have disappeared deeper into the plane.

Pelley said he told an aircraft engineer and airline staff that they would have to evacuate the aircraft if the snake disappeared inside the plane.

“I said to them if I don’t get this in one shot, it’s going to sneak through the panels and you’re going to have to evacuate the plane because at that stage I did not know what kind of snake it was,” Pelley said.

A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 sits on the tarmac in Australia on June 4, 2025. Getty Images

“But thankfully, I got it on the first try and captured it,” Pelley added. “If I didn’t get it that first time, the engineers and I would be pulling apart a (Boeing) 737 looking for a snake still right now.”

Pelley said he had taken 30 minutes to drive to the airport and was then delayed by security before he could reach the airliner.

An airline official said the flight was delayed around two hours.

Because the snake is native to the Brisbane region, Pelley suspects it came aboard inside a passenger’s luggage and escaped during the two-hour flight from Brisbane to Melbourne.

For quarantine reasons, the snake can’t be returned to the wild.

The snake, which is a protected species, has been given to a Melbourne veterinarian to find a home with a licensed snake keeper.

Nigerian Dambe boxing goes global — amulets and charms included

ABUJA: The first strikes in Dambe are thrown before the boxers even leave their house.

Fighters don charms and amulets, dye their fist or even score their arm with a razor, inserting traditional medicine before it scars over — all guaranteed to protect them in the ring or deliver a knock-out punch.

Combined with prayers from “mallams,” or spiritual guides, they are unstoppable — not just in Nigeria, but increasingly around the world.

The Dambe World Series kicked off in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, on Saturday in the latest evolution of a sport that traces its roots back centuries among west Africa’s Hausa speakers.

“Instead of trying to Westernize it, or instead of trying to make it something else, for us the goal is to professionalize it,” said Maxwell Kalu, founder of the West African Fighting Championship, the group organizing the tournament.

At the same time, a key goal is also “opening the door in terms of inviting people to compete in Nigeria.”

Held on the ground of the national stadium and broadcast by DAZN, a British sports streaming service, the tournament is a far cry from the social tradition said to have been organized by 10th-century Hausa butchers.

“This one is big, I’m very happy,” said Abdullahi “Coronavirus” Ali, a 20-year-old who has been fighting since he was a child. “The audience is growing every day.”

As Coronavirus — nicknamed for his ferocious punches — spoke to AFP, two amateur fighters worked the ring behind him, in a pre-tournament exhibition match in Dei Dei, a working-class Abuja exurb.

Chickens pecked under the rickety wooden stands while cigarette smoke wafted above the crowd.

In Dambe, in lieu of a glove, the fighters each have one fist tightly bound in rope — their striking arm. The other hand reaches out, feeling the space between the opponents and looking for something to grab or parry before the fighting arm whips forward as if from a loaded spring.

Amid the blows, one fighter lost his balance and fell — a “kill.” The round was over.

Dambe might have once seemed destined to be confined to the margins in places like Dei Dei as Abuja’s elite paved over anything standing in the way of modern skyscrapers and highways.

But slowly, the government has taken more interest in preserving and promoting the sport, as have private groups like the WAFC.

With the advent of YouTube and Instagram, Dambe now attracts fans across the world, with one promoter telling BBC in 2017 that 60 percent of his viewers were outside Nigeria.

The sport has also grown at home.

In 2018, a Dambe match in the southern city of Lagos drew spectators curious about their northern countrymen’s pastime — and excited to see it in a proper stadium.

Earlier this month, athletes from across the continent descended on the megacity for the African Knockout Championship, a Western-style mixed martial arts tournament.

But Kalu envisions the opposite: foreigners making their way to witness a distinctively Nigerian way of fighting.

Professionalization also brings the opportunity to bring in safety protocols and stable salaries to the otherwise unregulated sport.

“If I get married, I won’t allow my children to do it,” said Usman Abubakar, 20, his fist dyed a dark henna color and arm replete with charmed scars, recalling an injury to the chest that saw him sit out for two years.

Saturday’s fighters were competing to represent Nigeria in what is envisioned as a multi-stage, international series.

Boxers took to a sand-filled ring under stadium lights, with matches interspersed with musical acts and commercial breaks.

“Coronavirus” and his opponent danced around each other, sweat glistening, looking for an opening. He landed a blow, sending a tensed crowd into cheers as spectators overcame their urge to wince in shared pain.

“It’s somehow scary, but I do enjoy it,” said Joy Beatrice, a 30-year-old forestry officer in the stands.

Last year, supported by the WAFC, British national Luke Leyland traveled from Liverpool to compete in a Dambe match — reportedly the first white fighter to ever do so.

He was “destroyed,” according to one local media report, though he wrote positively of the experience.

Nigerian fighters remain cool on the idea of sharing the spoils of victory.

Asked what would happen if non-Nigerians started competing, “Coronavirus,” Abubakar and a third fighter, Anas Hamisu, were all excited at the prospect of more people embracing their sport.

But they also all shared the same prediction: the Nigerians would win.

An English dad claims his pet Burmese python has grown into the world’s biggest, but is still welcome to live in his home — alongside his much smaller children.

Marcus Hobbs, 31, bought Hexxie from a pet shop eight years ago when the reptile was just 8 inches long. The constrictor is now over 18 feet, Hobbs claims.

“I knew she would be big but she has shocked everybody by how much she has grown,” Hobbs, an IT worker from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, told South West News Service.

The potentially lethal reptile, who is still growing, chows down on rabbits, stillborn deer, calves, goats and pigs — and poops enough to fill a large trash bag once a month, according to the news agency.

Experts say the biggest Burmese python was 18 feet, 8 inches long, but Hobbs claims Hexxie is even bigger.

“I am very passionate about snakes and I try to help people understand them,” Hobbs said, adding, “I think people are so scared of them because they think they are going to kill them, but if people come around, I can talk to them all day long about snakes to reassure them.”

Hexxie lives in the three-bedroom home with his partner, Amy, 31, their two young sons, a smaller snake named Monty and Shiloh, the family Husky.

Hobbs says he would not bring Hexxie, who lives in the living room, out when his sons, ages 1 and 4, are around.

“I would only do it while they were in bed or another room,” he said. “I don’t think she’d be dangerous towards them, but you have to use your common sense and I’m a responsible pet owner.”

He said the closest Hexxie has ever come to attacking him was when he had to apply iodine to a skin infection.

“She went for me. Not properly — more of a ‘back off, get away’ type of thing. She’s nipped but she’s never latched on,” said Hobbs.

“Her mouth is full of hundreds of pin-shaped teeth like fishhooks,” Hobbs said. “If she gets hold of you, you cannot pull your hand out because all the teeth are going the wrong way.”

A python with a massively distended midsection was discovered lounging in a Pennsylvania couple’s backyard, leaving rescuers wondering what type of creature it had consumed.

An unnamed couple found the 8-foot-long female python on Oct. 4 slithering about in their Lancaster yard with a bulging belly, reports Lancaster Online. Thinking quickly, they loaded the escaped constrictor into a trash can and brought it to a local pet shop, That Fish Place – That Pet Place.

Jesse Rothacker of Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary picked the snake up several hours later and said the recent cold snap in the area could have killed the python.

“I think it’s brave [the residents] took that on,” said Rothacker. “She may not have survived last night because of the temperatures.”

At first glance, Rothacker wasn’t sure what the snake had eaten, but fortunately, snake wranglers were able to use X-rays to determine the identity of the serpent’s food baby: an opossum.

“All the evidence points to a possum, which is logical, because both pythons and possums are nocturnally active, and the size matches up,” the Forgotten Friend Reptile Sanctuary wrote in a Facebook post.

The reptile rescue clinic joked in a press release that although pythons “are known to eat a wide variety of birds, mammals and reptiles, they have not been documented to eat tacos” — in reference to the fact that the swollen snake was found on National Taco Day.

Unfortunately, despite a Facebook query, the reptile sanctuary has yet to confirm the overstuffed serpent’s owners. However, the couple who found her say this is the third time the animal has gotten loose.