Yellowstone National Park is home to 11 species of reptiles and amphibians. Snakes make up nearly half of that number, with ...

That’s right, a boa species infamously known for squeezing its prey to death lives in parts of the Western United States, including Washington and Idaho. “Northern rubber boas are found in all ...

Biologists identified the snake as a rubber boa. Rubber boas are native to the Pacific Northwest and part of our natural ecosystem. They are nonvenomous. In a Facebook post,Gretchen Brauer-Rieke ...

The snake was a Southern Rubber Boa or, as it is known to herpetologists, Charina umbratica. Sometimes called the rubber snake because it looks and feels like rubber, this reptile is a close ...

Boas in Berkeley? Unlikely as it seems, we do have a native species of boa. But this isn’t one of the giant constrictors of the tropics, big enough to swallow a deer. Rubber boas max out around 26 ...

The United States actually has two native boa species, the rubber boa (Charina bottae) and the rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata), above. Their combined ranges cover much of the American west ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A group of hikers got quite the surprise when they stumbled across a rubber boa. “He wasn’t threatening me,” said Karen Meier. Meier and several others were hiking along ...

Soon after I read the Field Guide about the rubber boa [Sept. 6], I ran into one. My buddy John Balbino and I were hiking back from Garnett Lake when John decided to stop to fly-fish. A brown ...

“Species like the Shasta salamander and rubber boa are part of what makes California special and are an important part of the web of life we all depend on. With a near-perfect record at saving species ...