The incredible moment a python swallowed a possum whole while dangling from a tree branch has been captured on camera by shocked onlookers.
The long diamond back python caught the Australian marsupial and wrapped its smooth body tightly around it, suffocating it, before beginning to devour it from head to tail.
In the shocking video footage, the large ring-tail possum remains lifeless in the hold of its killer as witnesses gasp in awe.
Watch this jaw dropping meal happen!
