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 ...

Police found a young ornate Nile monitor lizard inside a vacant Alameda home. Alameda Police Department Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern ...

Officers dispatched to investigate a report of a “Komodo dragon” inside a vacant Northern California home probably weren’t sure what to expect. The officers found a young ornate Nile monitor had been ...