Here in the Inland Northwest, a boa constrictor lurks under leaves, logs and inside rodent burrows. That’s right, a boa species infamously known for squeezing its prey to death lives in parts of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A photo of a rarely seen snake found wrapped around a small tree along the Clackamas River Trail is creating quite a stir online. Biologists identified the snake as a rubber boa.

“I couldn’t tell the head from the tail. It looked like it had two heads.” My friend Robert went on to describe how the snake coiled up into a ball but poked its head into the air as if it were trying ...

It can take years of hiking the same trails or of living in the same neighborhood to see the secretive rubber boa. This native boa comes out at night on a slow-motion hunt for small rodents and ...

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 the Clackamas ...

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 snake ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah man convicted of illegally possessing dozens of rubber boa snakes can't sue authorities over the death of almost all of them while they were in state custody. The Utah ...

Man finds snake. Man calls Fish and Game. Snake meets Fish and Game biologist. Biologist takes snake home. Snake ditches biologist. That's the short version of the story of Grubb, the little snake ...

A current generalization regarding body temperature (T b) variation in free-ranging reptiles is that, when possible, they maintain relatively high $T_{{\rm b}}\text ...

We get it — snakes are far from everyone's favorite animal. While they are fascinating creatures in their own right and serve a crucial role in the ecosystems they inhabit, chances are that when ...

I just spent six days in a tent with my family. This was part of an annual event where we gather at a lake resort on the dry side of the mountains with several other families for a week of communing ...

MUMBAI: A two-and-half-foot long sand boa was rescued recently near the Vikhroli mangroves with a thick elastic band tightly wrapped on its upper body. The sand boa, which was rescued three weeks ago, ...