Guam has fought the invasive brown tree snake for decades, deploying parachuting dead mice laced with Tylenol to curb the ...

These snakes were captured by hand in one night on Guam. (Photo courtesy USGS) HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 24, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government is preparing to drop dead mice laced with a snake ...

An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the loss ...

Snake catchers in Queensland, Australia, have removed a mildly venomous snake from under a child's bed. Stuart McKenzie, from Sunshine Snake Catchers 24/7, was called to the home on November 16 when a ...

A team of researchers from Colorado State University and the University of Cincinnati have discovered a new mode of snake locomotion that allows the brown tree snake to ascend much larger smooth ...

Snake-haters, look away – and, whatever you do, don’t look up. Scientists have discovered that brown tree snakes can use a lasso-like movement to climb large, smooth cylindrical objects – a way of ...

Snakes do a lot more than slither. Some swim, while others sidewind across sand (SN: 10/9/14). Some snakes even fly (SN: 6/29/20). But no one has ever seen a snake move the way that brown tree snakes ...

The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds. By Sabrina Imbler In 2016, on the northern tip of Guam, two biologists, Tom Seibert and Julie ...

A new study shows a species of tree snake uses an unprecedented form of locomotion in order to climb objects like trees. The brown tree snake loops its body into a lasso around wide, cylindrical ...

A snake in Australia avoided getting cooked after slithering into a homeowner's oven. In a March 21 Facebook post, Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers of Australia details how it handled an unwanted reptile ...