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

Scientists are using possums equipped with tracking devices to locate invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. When a possum stops moving, its collar signals its location, often indicating it has been eaten by a python.

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking collars around their necks and releasing them back into the mangrove thickets.

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

Burmese pythons are spreading across south Florida but will we start to see them slither up north? What to know

Hosts Kaitlen Daigle and Lauren Phinney sit down with Adelie Carstens, San Diego Humane Society senior wildlife rehabilitation specialist, to talk about the different species of snakes that are found in San Diego County. The most common snake found in the ...

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