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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Steven White

Enormous snake skin found on River Thames bank could be escaped boa constrictor

A huge snake skin was found on the shores of the River Thames in London by someone scavenging for valuable objects.

Jason Sandy was mudlarking, which is the act of searching in river mud for items of worth, when he came across the five-foot skin on the north side of the Thames close to Hammersmith Bridge on Monday (August 8).

The scaly skin could belong to a boa constrictor that had been abandoned or even escaped from its owner.

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