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

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, primarily established in the Everglades and South Florida. These snakes ...

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

Florida's opossums could soon become weaponized against prolific and invasive Burmese pythons by tracking them.

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

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

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

In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, ...

"We need everything that we can find to remove as many pythons as possible." ...

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

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 ...

Wildlife researchers in Key Largo are collaring opossums to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons that prey on endangered native mammals. The method uses mortality signals from VHF collars when a ...