Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 18:42
in Biology & Nature
A brown tree snake on Guam. In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, the snakes caused the extinction of nearly every native bird species on the Pacific island of Guam.