Opossums are becoming Florida’s secret weapon against giant invasive pythons—thanks to GPS collars and a wild discovery.
Researchers attach tracking devices to three-pound opossums, allowing them to track and capture pythons who eat them.
Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida's invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.
Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may ...
Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...
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 ...
Florida scientists are scaling up a novel python-tracking program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in 2022, ...