A potentially dangerous African lizard that can grow as big as 7 feet long and deliver a bite capable of crushing human bone was rescued by environmental police yesterday after an undercover cop set ...

Girdled lizards are found nowhere else in the world but southern Africa. They are Africa's 'Darwin's Finches', approximately 80 species radiating from a single ancestor between 35 and 25 million areas ...

An invasive lizard from Africa that has settled in South Florida was spotted moving up the coast of the Sunshine State. The Peter's rock agama has made its way north to parts of Central Florida, with ...

University of Alberta researchers have unearthed a mysterious link between bones of an ancient lizard found in Africa and the biggest, baddest modern-day lizard of them all, the Komodo dragon, half a ...

A worker on a plane got quite the surprise Thursday when an exotic lizard was spotted in the cargo area. The Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Unit responded to the scene to corral the Black Throat Lizard, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six-foot predatory lizards normally found along the Nile River in Africa have set up shop in South Florida — and Palm Beach County canals are a hot spot. Nile monitors, which ...

These non-native Peters’s Rock Agamas originate in Africa. They were introduced to Florida in the late 1970s through the pet trade. Ken Gioeli, an extension agent with the University of Florida’s ...

An invasive African lizard was discovered on the shelves of a Tennessee convenience store this week — hiding among the ramen noodles. How it got inside the Express Food Mart in Lawrenceburg is a ...

Krystal Tolley receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost ...

An exotic lizard was abandoned on the side of a Pennsylvania road earlier this month, but now he has a new home and a name. Oscar, the Savannah monitor, was reportedly found inside a trash can in ...

What was this Nile monitor doing in a case of instant ramen noodles at a Tennessee store? The owner isn’t sure how it got there. Sanjay Patel photo An invasive African lizard was discovered on the ...