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Bogus Warning – Australian Pythons and Venomous Snakes Are Interbreeding
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The claim
Story claims that Australian venomous snakes such as the Taipan are cross breeding with harmless Carpet Pythons to produce deadly hybrids.
You now need to be extra careful in the bush. I’ve heard that, because of the dry weather, taipans and brown snakes are interbreeding with carpet pythons. So, what you think is a harmless old carpet snake could actually bite and kill you!
What the fact-checkers found
False. The story is a myth with no basis in fact. Pythons and venomous snakes cannot interbreed.
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