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Seems Snakes on a Plane isn't as a ridiculous film as we thought, as new research suggests snakes have been hitchhiking on planes. Feel good about that trip you're about to take? 

A team of scientists led by the University of Queensland has found that the brown tree snake, which has been obliterating Guam's native bird population, made it to the Pacific island by hitchhiking on planes. 

And from Guam, they're hitching it to Hawaii.

What planes? Don't worry, the snakes didn't just slither through security to a business class seat on a commercial flight. According to the study published in the Journal of Molecular Evolution, they hopped on military transport planes somewhere around Australia during World War II. Read more...

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