She'd be paid by the hour – between $13 (£10.22) and $18 (£14.15) depending on where she was out hunting, for up to 10 hours – and a bounty for every python she caught.

The extremely stretchy skin around the jaw allows the python’s mouth to stretch even further around its prey. And a python’s mouth has one final trick.

She'd be paid by the hour – between $13 (£10.22) and $18 (£14.15) depending on where she was out hunting, for up to 10 hours – and a bounty for every python she caught.

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

A Florida-based python hunter has shared a video of the heart-stopping moment a Burmese python lunged at him and his camera crew.

Python hunter Amy Siewe caught this nearly 12-foot python in August 2023. Invasive Burmese pythons have ravaged native wildlife in Florida, and so far, the most effective solution is hunting them.

But the licensed python hunter underestimated its reach and took a risk by grabbing its tail instead of its head. Teeth, engineered to impale and hold struggling prey, sliced a vein below his elbow.

At the center of the fight against an invasive predator in the Florida Everglades is Amy Siewe, a former real estate broker who now hunts the beasts.

And they've even been known to eat alligators. Last year, python hunter Marcia Carlson Pack caught a 15-foot python with a 5-foot alligator inside of it, she told BBC News.

The Python Bowl now breaks participants into two categories: one for professional hunters from the South Florida Water Management District program and Florida Fish and Wildlife, and a separate ...