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.

Florida researchers are expanding a program that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The method, discovered by accident in 2022, takes advantage of the snakes’ tendency to eat opossums, allowing collars to ...

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A team observing racoon and possum behavior along urban ...

Wildlife researchers studying mammals in Key Largo have discovered a potentially groundbreaking — if not heartbreaking — way to locate and kill invasive Burmese pythons, especially the big ones. A team observing racoon and possum behavior along urban ...

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.