Emboa Medical’s scientific approach is in its name: emulate a boa constrictor, specifically its sharp, recurved teeth. The pre-clinical West Lafayette-based medical device startup founded on ...

According to the Florida Museum of History, boa constrictors may bite to defend themselves. Larger ones have large, sharp teeth, and their bites can cause severe lacerations.

Atlantic Forest boa constrictors can reach well over 7 feet in length, the study said. Their bodies are mainly brown with dozens of “saddle-shaped” black and brown markings down their backs.

Its patent-pending platform, called TRAP, or thrombus retrieval aspiration platform, emulates a boa constrictor’s teeth arrangement in its biomimetic design to grab onto blood clots without ...

Ronaldo, a 6-foot Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a school in England, was thought to be male — until the snake gave birth to 14 babies last month.