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 ...

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 popular public lecture series at the Guam Museum is putting the spotlight on Guam’s native koko bird and the threats they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 12 (UPI) --An Australian reptile wrangler was called to a Queensland home where residents discovered a venomous snake napping ...

A family received a nasty shock over the weekend after spotting a deadly and highly venomous snake hiding in a rain boot. The incident took place on Saturday in the town of Warwick in Queensland, ...

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 rustle in the leaves might reveal more than just a passing breeze—it could be a brown snake. Despite their plain name, brown snakes are remarkably diverse, ranging from small, harmless garden snakes ...

What really turns a brown tree snake on? That’s the question Rocky Parker, a chemical ecologist at James Madison University in Virginia, has been trying to answer these past few years, and it hasn’t ...

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 ...