The frog ate the most poisonous snake in the world (3 photos)

A tree frog miraculously survived despite being bitten several times as it attempted to devour the world's third most venomous snake.

Jamie Chapel, owner of Snake Take Away and Chapel Pest Control, was called to a house in the suburbs of Townsville, Queensland, Australia, to remove a deadly coastal taipan from one woman's backyard.

The snake catcher said he had already left for the address when the woman called him back to say that the snake had been eaten by a frog.

“By the time I got there, the frog had been bitten quite a few times, but still almost completely swallowed it,” the man said. “I wasn’t sure if the frog would survive, but I didn’t want it to regurgitate the snake alive and have it slink back into the woman’s yard, so I took it with me.”

As a result, the frog survived the night and will soon be released into the wild, if it survives, of course.

Chapel said tree frogs eat almost anything they come across, but added that coastal taipans are not common in Townsville.

Having taken several photographs of a frog and a snake, the man did not miss the opportunity and uploaded footage of the reptiles to the Internet, where his post received thousands of likes, reposts and comments.

“Many years ago I woke up to the sound of my budgerigar making a lot of noise, when I approached the cage I saw that there was a large green frog sitting below, whose mouth was full of feathers. They will eat whatever they get,” one user commented.

“I have photographs that are about four years old of a green frog eating a brown snake... This frog grabbed the snake by the head and began to choke it, and then when it stopped moving, it ate it... It was an amazing sight,” - another wrote.

Chapel also hastened to warn that anyone who is bitten by a coastal taipan should definitely call the proper authorities, otherwise things could end very badly for them.