A family in Hervey Bay, Australia, received a rather unwanted gift this Christmas after their son found a deadly snake slithering underneath their Christmas tree on Friday afternoon. "The young child ...

Gray rat snakes, or chicken snakes as they are more often called, are non-venomous and one of the most commonly encountered snakes in Mississippi. With brown and tan colors, it is a snake that really ...

Snakes don’t have arms and legs, but that doesn’t mean they can’t climb. While not all of these slithering reptiles climb, the ones that do, typically do it well. The News & Observer previously spoke ...

An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the loss ...

Diane Vice, wildlife supervisor and brown tree snake control program manager at the Guam Department of Agriculture, sees a day when Guam would finally be free of brown tree snakes. Vice addressed the ...

There's usually a sense of excitement about what lies beneath the Christmas tree, but for one festive family the biggest surprise was lurking in the branches up above. Rob and Marcela Wild wasted no ...

They might have been made famous by Samuel L. Jackson but snakes on a plane are actually very real. While you might not find them slithering through your Boeing 737, snakes started hitching rides on ...

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 ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...