The brown tree snake poses much more of a problem to ecosystems than it does to humans. The reptile is native to parts of Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Australia, but is ...

Brown tree snakes’ tropical range is populated by many smooth-barked trees, Savidge says, so the snakes may have developed this ability to reach bird nests that are otherwise out of reach.

UC Biologist Bruce Jayne with a brown tree snake. Until now it was thought there were four methods snakes use to climb things. A University of Cincinnati professor is part of a team that recently ...

The brown tree snake slithers through vegetation. Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey When biologists found three locally endangered Micronesian starlings dead in their nest box on Guam ...

Researchers have discovered that invasive brown tree snakes living on Guam can get around in a way that had never been seen before. The discovery of the snake's lasso-like locomotion for climbing ...

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 ...

A brown tree snake. Bruce Jayne Lasso locomotion, by contrast, only requires the snake to wrap its coils around an object once. That means brown tree snakes can scale cylinders (like baffles, or ...

Scientists have discovered a new technique that some snakes use to climb trees. The previously unknown mode of locomotion was observed in the brown treesnake, which forms a loop around a trunk ...

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Scientists have discovered that brown tree snakes can use a lasso-like movement to climb large, smooth cylindrical objects – a way of moving never seen before in the reptiles.