Opossums vs. Pythons: Inside Florida's Unusual Strategy for Fighting Invasive Snakes

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

Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Forrest Galante, wildlife biologist, on invasive species in Florida: “The Burmese python problem really is out of control”

In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, ...

Possums vs. pythons: How Florida’s only marsupial became a weapon against invasive snakes

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 ...

How many humans does it take to measure a huge Burmese python? Three.

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

This Python Vomited Up a Fully Intact Bird in One Cringey Move

When it comes to food consumption, snakes skip the whole chewing bit and swallow their meals whole. But sometimes their eyes ...

Connecticut is home to a wide variety of snakes. Meet reptile lovers protecting the valuable animals

Connecticut is home to a wide variety of snakes. Meet reptile lovers protecting the valuable animals ...

5 Endangered Snakes Hiding in New Jersey Right Now

New Jersey is a densely populated state, but it also hides some of the Northeast’s rarest snakes. They live in pine forests, ...