Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

Researchers attach tracking devices to three-pound opossums, allowing them to track and capture pythons who eat them.

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

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

Whether celebrated as Michigan's only marsupial or reviled as backyard pests, opossums make an impression. Famous for playing dead, they are a common sight rooting around trash cans or sheltering in ...

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DEAR JOAN: We have a chain link fence in the back of our property and a 6-foot wooden fence that separates the back from the front, and yet skunks and opossums somehow are getting into our yard. I ...

THOUGH they may be, according to your article [“Opossums: Your Garden’s Evening Clean-up Crew,” June 28], “one of the gentlest animals out there,” opossums are extremely frightening at 3:45 a.m. when ...

Opossums are becoming Florida’s secret weapon against giant invasive pythons—thanks to GPS collars and a wild discovery.