They say the garage had been broken into and two diamond pythons and a carpet snake were missing. The snakes, which are around 1.8 metres long, are not venomous.

Carpet pythons are commonly found in backyards of homes in northern NSW and Queensland, and the closely related diamond python is native to NSW and Victoria.

Peta Norton and her husband filmed the snake slither out of a hole in their roof and down the window of their Wyoming home on the New South Wales central coast on Friday night.

McKenzie doesn't specify the species of python, but there are 14 species of python that live in Australia, including the carpet python, diamond python and scrub python.

The carpet python grows up to about 10 feet in length and can live for up to 20 years. Native to Australia and New Guinea, the carpet python holds cultural significance for some Aboriginal groups.

Diamond pythons aren't especially dangerous, but they can grow quite large and like seeking out warmth in suburban homes along the Australian coastline.

A python was spotted slithering around a store in the heart of the Big Apple's Diamond District Friday -- just two days after another snake was found on the Upper West Side.

According to Animalia, carpet python is a large snake with stunning patterns that mimic an oriental carpet pattern on its skin.

They found a diamond python in the spice aisle that was 10-feet long. Diamond pythons are also sometimes known as carpet pythons.

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