Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades-and it's working.
The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.
Researchers in South Florida are expanding a novel python-hunting method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. The approach, discovered accidentally in 2022, has already ...