ABC15 Arizona

Amateur hunters capture nearly 18-foot python days before annual competition

NAPLES, Fla. — Three men said how they're pumped for the annual Python Challenge invasive snake hunting event, after catching a nearly 18-foot python Wednesday night in the Big Cypress National ...

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.
KTLA

Florida team hauls in 18-foot, 215-pound Burmese python

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A team of biologists ...
Hoodline

Key Largo’s ‘Spy’ Opossums Lead Hunters To Giant Pythons

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

Florida Scientists Found an Unlikely Python-Tracking Trick After a Snake Ate an Opossum

Scientists found a shocking way to track Florida's invasive pythons: let the snakes swallow GPS-collared opossums.

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 ...