Indiana Jones' fear of snakes — a contrast to his general fearlessness otherwise — has become a modern-day Achilles' heel, and the clips of Dr Jones flinching away at the asps in the Raiders of the ...

DENVER — When it’s Monday morning and a study about snakes hits your inbox, sometimes it’s best to lean in, absorb some mad snake knowledge and hope there’s enough time between watching the videos and ...

While you might think its lack of limbs might limit how it gets around, snakes have actually developed several different forms of locomotion. One of these is "rectilinear locomotion," and while most ...

Scientists have observed snakes using an entirely unknown way of getting around. Brown tree snakes in Guam have been spotted climbing objects by wrapping themselves into a never-before-seen “lasso” ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) – For the first time in more than 100 years, researchers have discovered a new mode of locomotion in snakes. Researchers from Colorado State University found at least one ...

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 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 ...

The novel technique is great news for Guam’s brown tree snakes, bad news for the island’s nesting birds. By Sabrina Imbler In 2016, on the northern tip of Guam, two biologists, Tom Seibert and Julie ...

Scientists have discovered a new technique that some snakes use to climb trees. The previously unknown mode of locomotion was observed in the brown treesnake, which forms a loop around a trunk with ...

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 ...