Shocking photos have emerged online showing a spider devouring a poisonous Australian brown snake five times its body size after killing it.
The incredible phot of the spider devouring the snake
A hungry redback spider has been caught defying the odds and devouring a much larger and more deadly Australian brown snake, Dailymail reports.
According to the report, the astonishing photos show the baby brown snake tangled in the spider's web and the spider taking a bite from the lethal reptile.
The creepy scene was captured by Jeff Simons said his wife, Judy in the shed at their property in Elmore in Victoria.
He said he didn’t believe her when she first told him about it and it wasn’t until the following day he bothered to go have a look.
‘It was still feasting on it the next morning,’ he said.
Mr Simons, who says doesn’t mind snakes but dislikes spiders, said he killed the redback and took the snake out of the web.
‘I haven’t seen anything like that before,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.
The brown snake, which is native to Australia, is one of the most venomous snakes in the world.
Brown snake venom contains toxins that cause paralysis or muscle weakness.
It's unclear what type of spider is in the photo.