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'Highly venomous' snake loses fight to larger lizard in Australia

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WALPOLE, Australia, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A Western Australia Parks and Wildlife officer captured a photo of a confrontation between a snake and a large lizard that ended unfavorably for the serpent. The photo, snapped by Frankland district flora officer Janine Liddelow, shows a "highly venomous" tiger snake's reign of terror coming to an end at the jaws of a hungry heath monitor. "Dinnertime! This highly venomous tiger snake didn't stand a chance when a hungry southern heath monitor came looking for something to munch on," the department wrote on Facebook. "Captured by our Frankland district flora officer Janine Liddelow, this shot was taken on a forest track north-east of Walpole. The southern heath ...