Scientists in Florida have found an unexpected tool in the fight against invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums wearing GPS collars. When a python eats a collared opossum, the tracking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's invasive Burmese python may have met its match with the opossum. Scientists in Florida have found an unexpected tool in ...

Burmese pythons are top predators in the Florida Everglades, and wildlife researchers have found a way to help control the invasive species by using opossums. Researchers have fitted opossums and ...

Imagine fitting a satellite-linked tracker to a giant constrictor and expecting a steady stream of locations. Scientists did ...

Florida scientists have found an unlikely weapon in their fight against invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums fitted with GPS collars. The strategy relies on a grim fact of life in the ...

Scientists in the Everglades region have fitted the animal — along with raccoons — with GPS collars to track Burmese pythons after they swallow the animals whole. “We need everything that we can find ...

Pythons are not the easiest animals to find. This well camouflaged and secretive species is able to blend perfectly into the environment. Detection rates for pythons are low, and on average it takes ...

(NewsNation) — Opossums are known to be one of snakes’ favorite prey, and now scientists in Florida are using them to their advantage. Scientists in the Everglades region have fitted the animal — ...

Scientists in the Everglades region have fitted the animal — along with raccoons — with GPS collars to track Burmese pythons after they swallow the animals whole. “We need everything that we can find ...