Researchers attach tracking devices to three-pound opossums, allowing them to track and capture pythons who eat them.

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

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

Florida, we’ve got a problem. A massive one. In Rotonda West, a Charlotte County resident came across a massive Burmese python measuring around 12 feet long Tuesday night. The enormous snake was ...

Florida scientists are deploying GPS-collared opossums to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons, a method discovered accidentally in 2022. The approach leverages the snakes’ natural predation on ...

Burmese pythons are spreading across south Florida but will we start to see them slither up north? What to know ...

Florida researchers are expanding a python-tracking method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. Discovered accidentally in 2022, the approach has already led to the ...

Have any humans have been killed by Burmese pythons? What to know Florida's large, invasive residents and their ...

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...