In the Florida Everglades, a growing predator conflict is unfolding between invasive pythons and native alligators. As ...

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 ...

Scientists in the Everglades region have fitted the animal — along with raccoons — with GPS collars to track Burmese pythons ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...