Scientists are using possums equipped with tracking devices to locate invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. When a possum ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, primarily established in the Everglades and South Florida. These snakes ...

Rapid animal domestication and ecological challenges reveal unexpected insights into human impact on wildlife.

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking ...

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

"Pythons are large-body snakes. They are constrictors. That means they're going to coil around their food in order to eat," ...

The opossums wear collars that send a signal to researchers when the mammal is eaten, revealing the snake's location.

"The Burning Man of snake hunting: it brings the wrong kind of attention to this problem." 🐍 Oscope Labs has unveiled an ...

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

Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...