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 ...

Florida researchers are scaling up a unique strategy to combat invasive Burmese pythons by fitting opossums with GPS collars. The animals, a common prey for the snakes, can lead scientists to pythons ...

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Florida scientists are scaling up an unconventional python-tracking program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered accidentally in ...

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 ...

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 ...