Florida has spent years trying to get invasive pythons out of the Everglades. Researchers just put a 150-pound one back, and ...

USGS researchers are testing drones to track Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades. A 16-foot, 147.9-pound radio-tagged female is part of the experiment to improve monitoring of the invasive snakes.

Researchers at the US Geological Survey have released a radio-tagged Burmese python into the Everglades. This experiment aims ...

A 16-foot Burmese python weighing 147.9 pounds was included in a US Geological Survey test of drone technology being evaluated for tracking invasive snakes in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. In ...

Deep in the forests of Florida’s Key Largo, an opossum is being used to find an animal that researchers rarely see coming. Fitted with a small tracking collar and released back into the wild, the ...

A slithering sentinel male python equipped with a surgically implanted tracking device led Florida wildlife biologists to what they are calling a “breeding aggregation” -- or snake sex party. Wildlife ...

"It's not the snake's fault; this is yet another human error of introducing a non-native animal." ...