“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 ...

Somewhere on San Juan Island, resting beneath a log as it digests a vole or deer mouse, is a distant relative of the giant anacondas of the Amazon. Kwiaht scientists are asking islanders to help find ...

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 ...

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 ...

If I say “boa,” you probably picture the tropical rain forests of South America, where the poster boy of the Boidae family, Boa constrictor, slithers through the brush. Your mind probably doesn’t leap ...

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 ...

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 ...

Snakes primarily bite in self-defense, often due to fear, hunger, or stress from poor handling. However, some species, especially those bred in captivity, are less prone to biting. These include corn ...