Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Guam brown snake is unique. Using its body like a lasso, this snake winds around the tree once and slowly lifts any side of ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a hissstoric evolutionary adaptation. A species of snakes has developed a never-before-seen climbing technique — looping themselves into lassos to slither up trees and poles, according to new ...

Brown tree snakes are known to be excellent climbers, but this latest discovery was a shocker, experts say. Photo: Bruce Jayne/University of Cincinnati A “bizarre” discovery involving tree snakes is ...

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 ...

In the world of tree climbing, snakes adopt a surprisingly cautious approach. The study published in Biology Letters reveals that these limbless reptiles exert up to three times the force necessary to ...

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 ...

"We watched that part of the video about 15 times. It was a shocker. Nothing I'd ever seen compares to it." Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and ...

Some snakes seem to be little scaredy-cats, as new research finds when climbing trees, they hold on for dear life. The study researchers found snakes use a much greater force to grip tree trunks and ...

Researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 11 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 ...