Opossums a regular food source for pythons. Tracking them during digestion may help curb the snake population. Credit: Deposit Photos

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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 ) slithering through the Everglades. More specifically, researchers will home in on signals coming from inside the enormous snakes’ stomachs.

Florida’s decades-long python problem remains one of the toughest ecological challenges facing wildlife conservationists in the United States.…