CBS 2 reported that this find comes just one week after a ball python was found under a woman's car at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve, about 30 miles away from where the boa constrictor was spotted.

Turns out, though, that ball pythons are in the same family as the boa constrictor. Both types coil around their prey and suffocate them before eating them. Contact Lisa Fernandez at 408-920-5002.

Picture this: you’re out hiking through a misty rainforest. After brushing aside some foliage, your heart leaps when a huge, powerful constrictor slithers by. Since the world’s most heavily ...

Invasive pythons were prohibited by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in 2021, but boa constrictors were not on that list.

Domestic animals do not include wild, exotic animals such as venomous, constrictor-type snakes or other reptiles, raccoons, skunks, ferrets, iguanas, or other “domesticated” wild animals.

The boa constrictor Big Shirl with a smaller snake. Big Shirl was killed by mistake while Burmese and reticulated pythons were euthanized in the Broward County warehouse of Bill McAdam in April 2023.

OSHKOSH — Police are puzzled over a possible boa constrictor that could be loose in Menominee Park. The snake skin found June 14 was previously thought to be of a Burmese python, but a second ...

SPOKANE -- A python, a boa constrictor, a tortoise and a lizard were saved by Spokane firefighters in a house blaze during the weekend.

Invasive pythons were prohibited in 2021 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission but boa constrictors were not on the prohibited list.

Terrified homeowners in Florida called in professional snake catchers after discovering a boa constrictor measuring over 9 feet in their backyard.