Explore the Kenyan sand boa’s habits, sandy habitat, and nonvenomous hunting style. The snake uses its head-like tail to ...

Boa constrictors are thick-bodied snakes with an average weight of 20-30 pounds, but some reportedly get to be 100 pounds. They are an average of 8-10 feet, with some reaching 12 feet or more.

On Aug. 19, officials with the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation were called to the Huancabamba province after ...

Boa constrictors are thick-bodied snakes with an average weight of 20-30 pounds, but some reportedly get to be 100 pounds. They are an average of 8-10 feet, with some reaching 12 feet or more.

While attention usually focuses on the Burmese pythons in Florida, green anacondas and boa constrictors have also been spotted in the Sunshine State.

Boa constrictors fall into the first group, in that they have a teeny-tiny left lung and a lengthy right lung that's roughly one-third as long as the snake's body, the JEB report notes.

Contents Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and ...

Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor.

The big snake orgy is new: Give them some credit even if the anacondas are digital constructs added by some geek toiling over a hot hard drive. Still, as movie illusions go, they're pretty scary ...