The Carpet Python is Australia's most well known snake and its name is derived from the carpet-like pattern on its skin.  It shelters in leaf litter, tree hollows, logs, fallen trees, rock crevices and caves.

It is non-venomous but has 50 to 60 very sharp teeth which it uses to hold its prey.  It kills its prey by constriction and swallows its prey whole.  Carpet Pythons also have an amazing ability  to eat animals many times their own size.

Usually 12 to 23 eggs are laid from November to January.  The female coils around the eggs and helps incubate them by shivering to produce heat.

Inhabits tropical to cool temperate lowlands and ranges along the coastline north from Coffs Harbour and also occurs in New Guinea.