A mother who woke to her son's blood-curdling screams found him lying in bed with a large python biting down on his head.
The boy's mother, Tammy, ripped the three metre snake off her young son's face on Thursday night after the reptile managed to slither into their Macksville, northern NSW home.
Tyler was asleep on the top of a set of bunk beds when the snake slithered into his sheets and woke him up with a nasty surprise bite.
The snake continued to bite him on the hand before lunging at his face, biting it a number of times before the boy's mother came into the room.
The snake was killed by a family friend who posed proudly for a photo.