Burmese python, Florida
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Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades-and it's working.
A bizarre discovery in Florida: GPS-collared opossums are now helping researchers hunt invasive Burmese pythons.
Burmese pythons provide an integrative contamination signal across terrestrial–aquatic food webs, leveraging long lifespan, whole-prey ingestion, and trophic position to concentrate PFAS in tissues. HPLC–MS/MS profiling of 67 python livers for 30 PFAS found linear PFOS dominant (93% detection;