The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration and large eyes – brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) have single-handedly ...

Brown tree snakes are invasive in Guam, depressing populations of native wildlife by eating lizards, birds, and small mammals. Introduced from ship cargoes in the 1950s, these venomous snakes face no ...

Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers of Australia helped the homeowners remove the brown tree snake Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Limbless tree snakes can lift most of their body into the air without toppling. They manage this by focusing all their ...

A community coalition to remove snakes on Islan Dåno’ or Cocos Island will hold the third brown tree snake blitz this ...

IT'S MIDNIGHT ON Guam, and an eight-foot-long brown tree snake has just emerged from a toilet bowl. After hours of slithering through sewage pipes, she's hungry. She slides across the bathroom floor ...

Learn more about how some snakes can use physics to propel themselves upright and what this technique could inspire for the future. Snakes use their many muscles to slither through grass, sand, and ...

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 ...

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 ...