A bizarre discovery in Florida: GPS-collared opossums are now helping researchers hunt invasive Burmese pythons.

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the invasive snake.

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.

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Authorities in Iowa County, Wisconsin said they found a massive dead snake dumped along a county highway Thursday. Pictures posted by the Iowa County Sheriff's Office show the snake measuring several feet in length.