Jones then argues against the common hypothesis that dragon myths might be motivated by primitive discoveries of dinosaur fossils (he argues that there are widespread traits of dragons in folklore which are not observable from fossils), and claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids, which he names as the raptors, great cats (especially leopards) and pythons.
(Antaresia childreni) is a nonvenomous python species found in Australia.
Given permission to settle by local tribes after having killed a dangerous python, they converted to Islam and married local women.
The dominant predators on the island are reptiles; particularly pythons (brown and green), monitor lizards and the Major's skink.
It has two strings and its soundbox is covered on the front (playing) end with snakeskin (from a python).
However, younger, weak, or injured individuals may have been vulnerable to predation by tigers, pythons, crocodiles, machairodonts, hyenas, bears, and Homo erectus.
The music video of "Into Your System" was accused of being very similar looking to Britney Spears' "Toxic" music video because of the scene with diamonds all over EliZe's body", and because it contains a yellow python, just like the one Spears performed with at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards.
In either case they are said to be large, benevolent, python-like creatures that live in water or caves.
Morelia viridis, the green tree python, is a species of python found in New Guinea, islands in Indonesia, and Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
The "ship" also includes the zoo's rescue center for animals such as pythons, boas, iguanas, turtles, and alligators which were handed over or abandoned by former owners who could no longer care for them.
The park also has a large collection of non-poisonous snakes including pythons.
There are also freak shows such as Mia Ngu (เมียงู, lit. snake's wife) with a woman living with a python.
:For the obsolete snake taxon, see Pythonidae.
The park also features many reptiles, including crocodiles, monitor lizards, and pythons, birds, including hornbills and kingfishers, and insects, such as the giant Bornean butterfly.
For another scene, a 4.5-meter python borrowed from a Buddhist temple was placed on top of actress Ampor Tevi to depict her character's sex scene with the snake king.
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Neang Nhi (Ampor Tevi), a woman neglected by her abusive husband, Manop, is working in the fields one day when she accidentally loses her hoe in some shrubbery and encounters a giant python.
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Primo Levi in his novel The Periodic Table in chapter Nitrogen considers pythons as a source for alloxane on behalf of a lipstick producer but he is turned down by the director of the Turin zoo because the zoo already has lucrative contracts with cosmetics companies.
This snake has the upper parts covered in large blotches similar to those of a python but they are distinctive in having their nostrils on the top of the snout to aid their aquatic lifestyle.