_____ as a goat

Mortified

Published 10.05.2005 by MWM | E-mail this post

(Somewhere a bunch of hack sci-fi script writers are kicking themselves...)

"A giant exotic snake's fatal mistake of trying to swallow an alligator has provided scientists with strange new evidence that pythons are continuing to spread in the Everglades."

Curtis Morgan of the Miami Herald provided a few more ghastly details of this horrifying-but-fascinating find. The evidence could be some twisted herpetologist's wet dream, but to anybody else it's a freaking nightmare!

"A meeting between two of the largest and fiercest predators in the Everglades -- a Burmese python and an American alligator -- ended in a scene as rare as it was bizarre.

The 13-foot-snake and six-foot gator both wound up dead, locked so gruesomely it is hard to make heads, tails or any other body part of either creature.

When the carcasses were found last week in an isolated marsh in Everglades National Park, the gator's tail and hind legs protruded from the ruptured gut of a python -- which had swallowed it whole.

As an added touch of the macabre, the snake's head was missing."