It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a string of boa constrictors hanging from the mouth of a cave snatching bats out of midair as they leave and return to their roosts. But this exact behavior has ...

Rosy boas are a distinctively colored, small species of boa. They’re one of the only types of boas in the United States, and they make excellent pets. Boas, or boa constrictors, are a large type of ...

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 ...