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 ...

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.

The record-breaking cold snap that hit Florida over the weekend had South Floridians shivering - and iguanas cold-stunned. Trappers collected thousands of iguanas, and thousands more were turned into ...

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 ...

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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 ...

ALAMEDA, Calif. - Former tenants left a massive lizard, called an ornate Niles monitor, behind in their home, Alameda police announced on Monday. Police dispatchers were called about it, and they, in ...

MARSHALLS CREEK, Pa. — Volunteers are combing through a wooded area just outside an apartment complex on Grey Fox Road near Marshalls Creek. The Wilderz at Pocono Wildlife got a call after neighbors ...