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.

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For Renee Aland, it was another regular morning … until she glanced out her car window and saw what appeared to be an alligator-sized lizard. Aland's eyes weren't deceiving her. She called the Florida ...

Rideemaliyadda Police have initiated investigations to arrest four suspects who killed a monitor lizard and roasted it over an open fire.The suspects had laid a trap and killed the iguana for meat and ...

In Lumphini Park, in the heart of Bangkok, huge carnivorous lizards stalk the lawns. Monitor lizards are the world’s second-largest lizard, after the Komodo dragon that’s endemic to Indonesia. The ...

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FLORIDA – Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the Burmese Pythons slithering through the Everglades. However, one species ...