OSHKOSH — Police are puzzled over a possible boa constrictor that could be loose in Menominee Park. The snake skin found June 14 was previously thought to be of a Burmese python, but a second ...

Turns out, though, that ball pythons are in the same family as the boa constrictor. Both types coil around their prey and suffocate them before eating them. Contact Lisa Fernandez at 408-920-5002.

CBS 2 reported that this find comes just one week after a ball python was found under a woman's car at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve, about 30 miles away from where the boa constrictor was spotted.

Boa constrictor? Actually, it was a python that apparently killed two boys sleeping above a pet store in Canada. Media reports initially identified the snake as a boa constrictor but the pet story ...

But as it turned it out, the snake was not a python as the homeowner had suggested. "When we get there, we are greeted by this huge albino boa constrictor!" Stanberry said.

Animal control officers arrived Tuesday after the owner had rounded up a 6-foot Burmese python, an 8-foot anaconda and a 10-foot boa constrictor. Officers took control of the snakes and returned ...

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