Horror moment mum discovers snake in daughter’s bedroom hiding among her toys

A chilling video shows a mum nearly pick up a venomous snake hiding in her daughter’s room after mistaking it for a shoelace.

The woman, from Sydney, Australia, was cleaning the room on Friday (February 26) when she saw the wriggly animal chilling out among the toys and clothes.

Luckily, she wasn’t scared and calmly filmed the snake while her daughter nervously talked to her in the background.

The dark-coloured snake rears up into an "S" shape and lashes out across the floor.

"Why is it striking?" asks her daughter, who sounds anxious, although she later says the reptile is "so cute".

The mum and daughter duo then caught the golden-crowned snake and put it outside on a tree so it could slither away to safety.

"I thought it was a shoelace," the mum told 2GB radio in Australia.

She joked: "I was actually going to pick it up and then I thought. 'oh I'd just turn the light on and see what it is.'"

Golden-crowned snakes are endemic to Australia and prefer to live in rainforests where they hunt lizards and frogs, mostly at night-time.

As its name suggests, the species has an orange-coloured pattern at both sides of its head but is otherwise dark brown along its whole body.

The snakes have a maximum length of just under one metre (98cm) and are venomous, but the venom is not particularly harmful to humans.

Meanwhile, one of the deadliest snakes in the world was captured in a garden after getting "confused" and trying to mate with a hose.

The 5ft-long male eastern brown snake was apparently enamoured with the garden hose, even though there was another snake right next to it.

And a woman had a nasty fright when she accidentally raked a highly venomous snake perfectly disguised as brown leaves.

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