A three-year-old Australian boy was lucky to escape uninjured after a collection of eggs he found in his yard hatched into a slithering tangle of brown snakes inside his wardrobe.
Reptile specialist Trish Prendergast said Kyle Cummings could have been killed if he had handled the eastern brown snakes – one of the world's most venomous species on land.
Kyle found a clutch of nine eggs a few weeks ago in the grass on his family's property on the outskirts of Townsville in Queensland, Prendergast said. He had no idea what kind of eggs they were.
He put the eggs into a plastic takeout food container and stashed them in his bedroom closet, where his mother, Donna Sim, found them on Monday.
Seven had hatched, but the snakes remained trapped under the container's lid. The remaining two eggs were probably infertile and were rotten, Prendergast said.
"I was pretty shocked, particularly because I don't like snakes," Sim .
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