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

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

One challenge in managing invasive pythons is their elusive behavior, compounded by the difficult-to-access terrain and their ...

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

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...

KEY LARGO — Biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove part a curtain of vegetation and stride into the shadows of a dense forest in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge to check on a line of possum ...

Opossums are being used to fight invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Here's how researchers are doing it and pythons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An X-ray image shows a GPS-collar, that once sat around the neck of a possum, inside a dead Burmese python that swallowed it. An X ...

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

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A carpet python was found attempting to eat a possum that had three babies in its pouch. "When we arrived the possums ...

Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A woman in Hervey Bay, eastern Australia, was interrupted during dinner on Tuesday evening by the sound of a 7-foot ...