More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 25, 2019. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . There are anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 invasive Burmese pythons () currently slithering through the Florida Everglades.

Environment Conservation Land Scientists sacrifice delicious opossums to fight Florida's invasive pythons More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Tracking them during digestion may help curb the snake population. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. 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 () slithering through the Everglades.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Fine artist Laura Shape uses quite an unexpected medium in her visual artwork. It lends striking patterns to her abstract canvases, while helping restore rivers, reefs, and wetlands. Shape uses the leather of invasive species--specifically lionfish, carp, and Burmese pythons. "I use those materials to make vibrant, textured, abstract acrylic pieces," she tells Popular Science via video call.