A bizarre discovery in Florida: GPS-collared opossums are now helping researchers hunt invasive Burmese pythons.
Opossums are being used to fight invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. Here's how researchers are doing it and pythons ...
Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades—and it’s working.
Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...
An invasive Burmese python with a surgically implanted tracking device led Florida researchers to the largest python “aggregation” ever found in Collier County. A couple of days before Valentine’s Day ...
Florida wildlife researchers are deploying collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in hard-to-reach areas, aiming to remove large breeders threatening native species. The strategy, ...
Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A ...
MIAMI - Zoologists in South Florida made an incredible discovery when they went looking for an invasive python they had been tracking with a transmitter — only to find it had been eaten by a native ...
Florida is turning to the dogs to help solve its Burmese python problem. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has been training dogs to track down pythons for more than a month.