Another giant reptile is clawing its way toward disrupting the South Florida ecosystem as an invasive species. The Nile monitor — a semi-aquatic lizard equipped with razor claws that can grow up to 6 ...

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A new reptile shop has opened its doors in Durham, offering customers the chance to see a variety of exotic animals from tortoises and geckos ...

Customers at The Market Place spotted "something extremely lifelike" on one of the shelves and alerted store staff.

Officials in Florida say an injured mother manatee and her calf have been rescued from a river and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation.

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 ...

If you haven’t heard of a goanna before, think VERY LARGE LIZARD. It’s a general name for several varieties of monitor lizard that live in Australia. And like so many, shall we say, “startling” ...

The Nile monitor is an invasive, aggressive lizard species established in parts of Florida. These large lizards can grow over 6 feet long and are skilled swimmers and climbers. While not venomous, ...

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor ...

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CONNECTICUT, USA — Goose, a 5-foot-long Asian water monitor lizard that escaped a Massachusetts home and was spotted in Connecticut, is no longer on the loose. The Rainforest Reptile Shows ...