The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

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

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, primarily established in the Everglades and South Florida. These snakes ...

Possums are being put to work in Florida in the fight against invasive Burmese pythons, here's how the experts are using the ...

Some of Florida’s opossums may soon start dying for a noble cause. A few select marsupials fitted with tracking collars may begin to lead scientists to invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...