A local Topeka woman got a big surprise this week when she found a large snake hanging out on her front porch early Thursday ...

Boa constrictors mostly consume various medium-size rodents, lizards, and birds. They have also been known to chow down on even larger prey, including monkeys, wild pigs, and ocelots.

Boa constrictors mostly consume various medium-sized rodents, lizards, and birds. They have also been known to chow down on even larger prey, including monkeys, wild pigs, and ocelots.

Ronaldo, a 6-foot Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a school in England, was thought to be male — until the snake gave birth to 14 babies last month. The boa had not had contact with ...

Boa constrictors breathe by expanding and collapsing their ribcages, a technique that seems at odds with the snakes’ habit of constricting and swallowing huge meals — both actions that ...

The boa constrictor tightly wraps around its prey until it is suffocated. National Geographic wrote that boa constrictors will eat anything they can catch, like birds, monkeys and wild pigs.

Boa constrictors inhabit the forests around Guayaquil and, on occasion, they move into urban areas, sometimes in search of animals to eat, such as rats, possums and even cats, Fran Huilca, a ...

A 5-foot long boa constrictor caused quite a stir at an Upper West Side apartment complex last week. The snake was seen Wednesday morning crawling up an exterior gate at a complex in Manhattan.

On Saturday morning, the customer went to a Target in Sioux City, Iowa, where she found a snake, believed to be a 6-foot-long boa constrictor, coiled up inside one of the red shopping carts.