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

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

When researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced they’d bagged the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida earlier this summer, the catch highlighted a secret weapon in ...

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell couple came home from vacation to an unsettling surprise — a four-foot python hiding under their deck. “I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I look over, and it’s right ...

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the quest to rid the Everglades of invasive Burmese pythons—including a record-breaking, 215-pound giant. Researchers Ian Bartoszek (left), Ian Easterling, and ...

A python's last big meal turned out to be quite a doozy. You might not believe what scientists in Florida found when they opened him up. The scientists at a Florida lab could feel something big inside ...

It sounds challenging. Learn everything you need to know about a Burmese python in 60 minutes − how it arrived in Florida, how to identify a python, how to search for one and ultimately, the humane ...