IT'S MIDNIGHT ON Guam, and an eight-foot-long brown tree snake has just emerged from a toilet bowl. After hours of slithering through sewage pipes, she's hungry. She slides across the bathroom floor ...

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration and large eyes – brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) have single-handedly ...

A new species of snake was recently discovered after scientists spotted it taking on a hawk on a Papua New Guinea island. Measuring as long as 4 feet, 8 inches, the Dendrelaphis anthracina, or coal ...

Scientists have identified the genetic changes that helped tree-dwelling snakes to evolve longer tails across multiple ...

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, covering pets, animal ...

Within the remote islands of Papua New Guinea, four new tree snake species have been discovered. Limited sampling had previously resulted in taxonomic confusion, but the new species were recently ...

For the third time, volunteers and wildlife specialists combed Islan Dåno' at night looking for brown tree snakes. For the third time, they came up empty. And for the people ...

Scientists found a “muscular” creature with a “thick neck” in a forest of Vietnam and discovered an “elusive” new species, a study said. Google Street ...