Four-metre-long century-old python discovered in China by road work crew

A construction team found a pair of pythons while maintaining a road in a mountainous area in southern China , local television reports.

The bigger reptile was nearly 4 metres long, weighed 31kg and was estimated to be about 100 years old, according to the Metropolis Channel. The smaller one was more than 2 metres in length and aged about 60.

The workers found the snakes in a cave while digging a culvert for a road in

Chuxiong city, Yunnan province. They drove them out with smoke and called the police.

Upon hearing the news, local villagers rushed to the town’s government building, where the pythons had been taken, to take pictures.