Watching a boa constrictor capture and consume its prey is quite something. First, the snake strikes and latches onto the prey with its teeth, then it coils its body tightly around the poor creature ...

Watching a boa constrictor capture and consume its prey is quite something. First, the snake strikes and latches onto the prey with its teeth, then it coils its body tightly around the poor creature ...

Boa constrictors are a fairly well-known group of non-venomous snakes that occupy a unique place in pop culture. Their massive size and primary attack method — squeezing their prey to death — makes ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As the hot afternoon waned toward evening, the 12-foot-long boa constrictor climbed a Guatemalan cliff and slithered out onto a ledge overhang. Beautifully patterned scales made it almost invisible ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that constrictor snakes kill by stopping the flow of blood inside their prey. That approach is so efficient that animals don’t survive long enough to ...

After almost 20 years of living with roommates, Warren Taylor has decided it’s time for them to move out. Taylor is seeking new digs for three large boa constrictors, a jungle carpet python and a ...

When a boa constrictor catches a rat, lizard or bird, the snake seems to suffocate the animal before devouring it. But new research finds that's not actually the case. "It looks like the animals are ...

This boa constrictor is the result of a "virgin birth" in which its mama reproduced without a male in a phenomenon called parthenogenesis. Scientists are urging swift action to stop the spread of boa ...

Boa constrictors seem to deliver death not through suffocation, but by cutting off blood flow to the heart and brain. Photo: Ivan Kuzmin/imageBROKER/Corbis Snakes aren’t kind killers, often pumping ...

Scientists are urging swift action to stop the spread of boa constrictors in Puerto Rico now that new research shows the invasive species has established a breeding population on the island. "We've ...