What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and scuba instructor in Cheboygan, Michigan. While cleaning the hull of her ...

Editor's note: We've updated this story with new information. Since last November, when a prehistoric-looking shoebill landed on a tour boat in Uganda and appeared to dwarf observers, the birds have ...

A recently vacated Alameda rental came with a jaw-dropping surprise: a large lizard, roughly seven feet long, left behind inside the home after the tenants moved out. Alameda police responded and, ...

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible. By Carl Zimmer If you live in the ...

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” ...

What do Nile monitor lizards look like? Nile monitors are olive green to black in color and have cream-colored or yellow stripes on the jaw and head. They have rows of yellowish, V-shaped stripes ...

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, ...

SINGAPORE – Endangered animals, including a leopard tortoise and a spiny-tailed monitor lizard, were seized in raids on Oct 9 by the National Parks Board (NParks) as part of efforts to stop the ...

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 ...

A fishing cat in the Sundarbans was photographed preying on a monitor lizard, which is not part of its typical diet. Fishing cats are the state animal of West Bengal and are known to live on a diet of ...

ALL RIGHT, ANTHONY, THANK YOU. A TOWN IN MAINE IS ASKING ITS RESIDENTS TO LOOK OUT FOR A LIZARD ON THE LOOSE. THEY BELIEVE IT’S A TEGU WHICH HAVE SHARP TEETH AND CLAWS. THEY SAY IT WAS SPOTTED ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed listing the Borneo earless monitor, an elusive lizard endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, as threatened under the Endangered ...