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

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Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

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 ...

Python Problem: Experts say the large snakes in Florida are moving north into Brevard County ...

"We need everything that we can find to remove as many pythons as possible." ...

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

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking ...