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.

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

In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, ...

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

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

Florida researchers are combating invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades by fitting opossums with GPS collars, turning predator-prey encounters into tracking opportunities. The method, discovered ...

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