Snakes have adapted to climb trees, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s their secret? Mike Bock This corn snake, shown here at the Smithsonian's ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some, the sight of a snake slithering on the ground is scary enough, so how about one launching itself through the air? Chrysopelea paradisi – the paradise tree snake – does just that, propelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

FOUR years ago, when I brought a snake into the living room and put it down to observe its way of locomotion, my natural feelings toward it were tempered somewhat by the view of the evolutionist. That ...

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” ...

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 ...

Researchers from IIT-Bombay and Harvard University have discovered a previously unreported S-shaped escape movement in young yellow anacondas. This rapid, non-planar motion, termed the "S-start," is ...