A blue anole–a lizard unique to Gorgona island–is being eyed up by another lizard, the Western Basilisk. Suddenly, a boa constrictor appears on the scene, and the hunter is in danger of becoming the ...

The opening pages of the 1943 book The Little Prince recall how the narrator, as a child, once drew a picture not of a hat — as every adult insisted it was — but of a boa constrictor that had ...

That long, scaly thing slithering on the ground is probably a snake. But there’s a chance it’s not. The News & Observer spoke with local wildlife experts to learn about these reptiles — where they ...