Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Researchers scanning tree branches with flashlights in a dense Vietnamese forest in the middle of the night spotted a lizard clinging to a shrub, fast asleep. It was bright lime green, lined with ...

For invasive reptile hunters in Florida, there’s another predatory lizard on the radar. Nile monitors, native to Africa, are populating parts of the Sunshine State, and they can now be killed ...

The Grand Marais City Council met Wednesday, Feb. 11, to review proposed improvements to 3rd Street, hold a second reading of ...

An up-close encounter with one of nature’s most fascinating reptiles — learning about monitor lizards while safely catching and studying one in the wild.

Grand Marais city officials are moving forward with adopting an ordinance to regulate hunting and trapping within city limits. During the Jan. 28 city council meeting, council members reviewed the ...

The reptile, a tegu, had frostbite and showed signs of weakness from exposure in this week’s cold weather. It was unclear where it came from. By Aimee Ortiz A Rhode Island man digging out his driveway ...

One of the world’s largest species of lizards, an ornate monitor, was found abandoned in an Alameda home last month, police said. On Dec. 24, the property manager of the home reported that a lizard ...

A huge pet lizard was found left behind in a recently vacated home, Alameda police said. Related Articles After decades under private ownership, Safari West to become nonprofit ‘I don’t see any other ...

Alameda police were recently called to a home where the former tenants had reportedly left behind a large Komodo dragon. When police arrived, it turned out to be a young ornate Nile monitor -- a ...

This animal's armor has upended a key law of evolution For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – were an ancient ...

I’LL NEVER FORGET my first trapped coyote, because it was actually my third. When I started canine trapping years ago, I caught a big male coyote that I could hear howling from the field behind my ...