An enormous python filmed during relocation on a Bela-Bela farm has sparked attention and renewed focus on snakes’ role in ...

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

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

Florida researchers are expanding a program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered by accident in 2022, takes advantage of the ...

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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.

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's ...

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

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