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

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

After nearly five months of waiting, an alarm activated on Michael Cove’s radio, a sign his study was working. To hunt pythons, an invasive predator in the Florida Keys, Cove and fellow researchers ...

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 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 ...