It had a 'head white as snow, and body black as night' and was originally misidentified by construction workers. 9News
Tim Hudson, from Hudson Snake Catching on the Gold Coast, was called to the soon-to-be-demolished property after workers noticed the unusually-coloured reptile slither into a bedroom.The snake was found hiding behind a tattered bed in an abandoned Queensland home.
It was identified as an eastern brown snake, Australia's second most venomous snake after the inland taipan.This can easily lead to misidentification, as happened with the tradies at the old house."They actually thought it was a red-bellied black snake, but it was a black eastern brown," Hudson told 9news.com.au.
"Eastern browns come in a whole variety of different colours from gunmetal, grey terracotta orange tan brown cream, brown black and fully banded specimens.Hudson added "there are a lot of ways" an eastern brown can be identified, but said "that should be left to professionals".
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