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

Florida scientists are expanding a program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate and remove invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, takes advantage ...

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

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

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

Florida researchers are expanding a python-tracking method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. Discovered accidentally in 2022, the approach has already led to the ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

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

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...