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The '''Bluff Downs giant python''' (''Liasis dubudingala'') is an [[extinction|extinct]] [[species]] of [[snake]] from [[Queensland]], [[Australia]], that lived during the Early [[Pliocene]].<ref>{{citeCite journal doi| doi = 10.1080/03115510108619232| title = A new giant python from the Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna of northeastern Queensland| journal = Alcheringa: an Australasian Journal of Palaeontology| volume = 25| issue = 4| pages = 425| year = 2001| last1 = Scanlon | first1 = J. D. | last2 = MacKness | first2 = B. S. }}</ref>
 
The Bluff Downs giant python hunted [[mammals]], [[birds]] and [[reptiles]] in the [[woodland]]s and vine thickets bordering Australian watercourses during Pliocene times. Its nearest living relative is the [[olive python]] (''Liasis olivacea'').