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A snake has eaten a crocodile in an epic duel that shocked onlookers at a Queensland lake.
The whopper snake took on the croc at Lake Moondarra, near Mount Isa, on Sunday, and the contest and its surprising result was captured on film.
Mount Isa mother Tiffany Corlis was having breakfast nearby when canoeists racing on the lake alerted her about the endurance battle playing out nearby.
She grabbed her camera and took a series of shots that documented the enormous snake's assault on the much smaller croc, which was about a metre long.
By the time Ms Corlis started watching, the snake had already coiled its body around the crocodile and was beginning to strangle it.
"(The crocodile) was fighting at the start, so it was trying to keep its head out of water and survive," she told ABC North West Queensland Radio on Monday.
"But as the morning sort of progressed, you could tell that both of them were getting a little weaker.
"Finally, the croc sort of gave in and the snake had uncoiled for a little while and had a brief break and then actually started to consume the crocodile."
Ms Corlis said it was amazing to witness.
"It was just unbelievable," she said. "We were sort of thinking that the snake had bitten off a little more than it could chew.
"But it did. It actually ate the crocodile."
The aftermath showed the overstuffed snake lying still, where presumably it stayed for some time as it digested its dinner.
"When you actually looked at the snake, you could actually see the crocodile's ridges, legs and everything inside its belly," Ms Corlis said.
A mobile-phone picture of the deadly struggle. Photo: EPA
A large snake has won a life-and-death battle against a crocodile in Australia, swallowing the creature whole after a long struggle before amazed onlookers.
Travis Corlis, who watched the fight at Queensland's Lake Moondarra, near the outback mining town of Mount Isa, on Sunday, said the snake was about three metres long and "healthy looking".
The crocodile, which the python coiled itself around, was about a metre in length, he said.
"They had quite the struggle in the water," he said. "It was an ongoing battle. We were just standing there in amazement watching it."
Corlis said several hours after he first saw the encounter, he noticed the snake had pulled the crocodile on to the bank of the lake and released its prey, which by this stage was dead.
"About 10 minutes later the crocodile was gone," he said, referring to the creature being eaten.
His wife Tiffany described the battle as "just unbelievable".
"We were sort of thinking that the snake had bitten off a little more than it could chew," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "But it did. It actually ate the crocodile.
"When you actually looked at the snake, you could actually see the crocodile's ridges, legs and everything inside its belly."
She said the crocodile had struggled to keep its head out of the water, and while both animals had clearly tired during their marathon fight for survival, "finally, the croc sort of gave in".
Travis Corlis said that while the crocodiles and snakes were both common in the area, he had never seen them clash in such a way.
Freshwater crocodiles, smaller than their saltwater cousins, are known to inhabit Lake Moondarra and a recent drought had seen the water level drop, making them more visible.
"I think it might just have been nature at its best," he said.
