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

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

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

Florida’s invasive Burmese python crisis is intensifying, with sightings spreading north beyond the Everglades and new predator dynamics emerging. Researchers are deploying GPS-collared possums and ...

Researchers in South Florida are expanding a novel python-hunting method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. The approach, discovered accidentally in 2022, has already ...

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

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A team of biologists ...

The large snakes typically live in rainforests near streams, although they have been known to survive in a variety of habitats, such as grasslands, swamps and rocky foothills. In Florida, the FWC ...