Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Possums vs. pythons: How Florida’s only marsupial became a weapon against invasive snakes

KEY LARGO — Biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove part a curtain of vegetation and stride into the shadows of a dense forest in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge to check on a line of possum ...
Newsweek

Python Tries and Fails To Eat Possum With Pouch Full of Babies: ‘Too Big’

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A carpet python was found attempting to eat a possum that had three babies in its pouch. "When we arrived the possums ...

Opossums vs. Pythons: Inside Florida's Unusual Strategy for Fighting Invasive Snakes

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

Wild video shows python hanging from rafters pulling possum up by its neck

Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...
WLRN

Researchers turn to possums with GPS collars to track invasive pythons

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 ...

To Target Pythons, Florida Researchers Are GPS-Tracking Possums and Waiting Until They Get Eaten

Wildlife biologists are developing a new python tracking technique that uses GPS-collared possums to lead them to hungry ...
Newsweek

Man Comes Home to Find Huge Python Coiled Around Possum He Named Reggie

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A possum found hanging upside down in the grasp of a large carpet ...