Brown tree snakes can turn their bodies into lassos to shimmy up power poles and trees — a superpower that has allowed the species to invade new territory, new research has found. This is the first ...

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 ...

Video showing the “lasso” mode of locomotion at 10 times normal speed (the gif is sped up from the original video, which showed 5x normal speed). Gif: Thomas Seibert/Gizmodo Jaw-dropping footage taken ...

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 ...