Opossums vs. pythons: Inside Florida's unusual strategy for fighting invasive snakes

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

Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.
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Python Nicknamed 'The Baroness' Breaks Record for World's Longest Snake with Over 23 Feet of Scales

The female snake measures in at approximately 23 feet and 8 inches, although its length can be significantly extended when sedated “A python this big will probably be drawn toward a village … and once ...
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This Python Vomited Up a Fully Intact Bird in One Cringey Move

When it comes to food consumption, snakes skip the whole chewing bit and swallow their meals whole. But sometimes their eyes ...

Biologists Are Using Florida Opossums as Low-Tech Trackers to Hunt the State's Invasive Burmese Pythons

The collars send a signal to researchers after a opossum is eaten, leading to the snake's location ...

Possums vs. pythons: How Florida’s only marsupial became a weapon against invasive snakes

Docile, furry and cute to some, possums have become an unexpected ally in the effort to slow the invasion of Burmese pythons, ...