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.

Seeing a large monitor lizard inside or around your home can be frightening. These reptiles are strong, fast, and can grow several feet long depending on the species. In tropical and subtropical ...

Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and extended tails. When people see a small wall lizard drop its tail and run away, ...

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” ...

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, ...

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 ...

Michael from The Reptile Zoo talks about the savannah monitor lizard, their size, habitat, diet, and care. These lizards are known for their intelligence, but require specific care! House lawmakers ...

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 ...

Massachusetts Environmental Police have released new video showing the moment when they captured an escaped water monitor lizard that was on the loose for about two weeks. "Around 2 PM on Saturday, ...