Animal rescuers found two large pythons and 50 hatched eggshells when they smashed a concrete floor in Thailand.

The team rushed to the property after being informed that a baby python had slithered out of a small hole on a tiled floor in Krabi province on March 19.

However, snake wranglers found that the hollow space under the floor had two pythons slithering around - a 13ft-long female and her 11ft-long mate. There were also eggshells scattered around which were estimated to have hatched into 50 baby snakes.

Volunteers took ten hours before finally catching both snakes with a hook as they had to demolish the floor to pull the creatures out.

House owner Somchok Wipolchai, 52, said: 'I found my dog barking on the hole. It made me shiver and imagined all kinds of creatures that could be living underneath.

'My dog wouldn't leave the hole alone until a small snake had slithered out. I immediately called for help because the floor was made of concrete and tile.'

The team first tried to lure the creatures out but without success so the house owner allowed the men to smash the floor and create a bigger hole.

After smashing the floor with equipment, the volunteers found more than 50 hatched python eggshells along with a python couple slithering around.

The first python that they found weighed more than 15kgs and is 11.5ft-long while the other is 13ft-long and weighed 20kgs.

The team carried the two snakes into a metal cage before spraying water to calm the animal down. Both the pythons were released to the jungle far away from people’s homes.

Relieved Somchok said: 'I believe the snakes have been living under my house for years. They started their snake-catching mission in the morning and caught them in the evening.'