The python's head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm.

At Everglades National Park, visitors watched as a hefty alligator wrestled with a Burmese python, thrashing the snake's body in the water before sinking its jaws back in, reported the Miami Herald.

A first responder who specializes in catching invasive Burmese pythons had a busy week wrangling the reptiles in Miami-Dade County.