Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida's invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.
Wildlife biologists are developing a new python tracking technique that uses GPS-collared possums to lead them to hungry ...
In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking ...
The war being waged against Florida's most notorious pest experienced a recent battlefield victory. It's a sign humans could finally be gaining ground against one of the greatest invasions ever to ...
Florida scientists are scaling up a novel python-tracking program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, ...
Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's ...
A slithering sentinel male python equipped with a surgically implanted tracking device led Florida wildlife biologists to what they are calling a “breeding aggregation” — or snake sex party.