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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. A Burmese python weighing in at 202 pounds was captured, marking it as the second-heaviest ever recorded in Florida. It was 13 pounds away from breaking the record, and just one ...

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