Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida's invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.

We’re not putting these animals out there and in harm’s way. Harm’s way is there. We're just documenting what's happening" ...

Opossums are becoming Florida’s secret weapon against giant invasive pythons—thanks to GPS collars and a wild discovery.

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking ...

Scientists in Florida have launched a new offensive against the Burmese python invasion, this time using opossums, one of the ...

Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades-and it's working.

Florida researchers are expanding an innovative program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, takes ...

Opossums are being used to fight invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Here's how researchers are doing it and pythons ...

MIAMI - Zoologists in South Florida made an incredible discovery when they went looking for an invasive python they had been tracking with a transmitter — only to find it had been eaten by a native ...

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...

A slithering sentinel male python equipped with a surgically implanted tracking device led Florida wildlife biologists to what they are calling a “breeding aggregation” -- or snake sex party. Wildlife ...