Florida wildlife researchers are deploying collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in hard-to-reach areas, aiming to remove large breeders threatening native species. The strategy, ...

The opossums wear collars that send a signal to researchers when the mammal is eaten, revealing the snake's location.

Florida biologists are fitting opossums with tracking collars to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons threatening ...

One challenge in managing invasive pythons is their elusive behavior, compounded by the difficult-to-access terrain and their ...

Mistaken euthanasia during a python crackdown led to graphic scenes new state rules and a long legal fight over a rare ...

Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

Burmese pythons have pretty irregular eating habits. One of these giant reptiles can swallow an entire antelope whole and then go up to a year and a half without additional meals. Now, scientists have ...

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...