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.

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.

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

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.

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

Some on social media swore the snake was a ball python, but Animal Services confirmed on Facebook and to The Charlotte Observer that the snake was a boa constrictor.

She later revealed during the call that she had rescued two boa constrictors the day before, adding to her collection of nine -- yes nine -- ball pythons.

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 ...

The other five species of snake -- the reticulated python, DeSchauensee's anaconda, green anaconda, Beni anaconda, and boa constrictor -- account for the other 70 percent of imports. So now? Wayne ...

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Florida wildlife officers killed dozens of caged pythons, and one pet boa constrictor by mistake, in what some reptile enthusiasts say was an overreach of authority last week. Bill McAdam, whose ...