This man went to check his backyard to find a giant tegu lizard. He went to the other side of the yard to drive the lizard away when it attacked him. He jumped onto a small tree to protect himself ...

Bolg amondol was a raccoon-sized armored mostesaurian lizard that lived about 77 million years ago, similar to today’s Gila monsters ( Heloderma horridum ). It is named after the goblin prince from ...

A spokesman for Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed that the agency began looking for the escaped Asian water monitor lizard in the South Florida neighborhood near Tree ...

Giant lizards are coming out of hibernation in Florida. Trouble is, Robin Sussingham of WUSF reports, they're members of an invasive species with a taste for the eggs and hatchlings of native animals.

The world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi, Tunisia.

The Lizard King cometh. No, not Jim Morrison — a real Lizard King: a six-foot, 100-pound reptile that's been chilling in a South Florida neighborhood and appears to be unstoppable, or at least ...

And before getting introduced to an adorable black leopard, which has strong enough claws to carry a predator five-times its weight up a tree, a lizard defecated all over the video shoot, sending ...

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The lizard was most likely an Asian water monitor, according to Ali Mulla, a conservation biology graduate student at the University of South Florida who’s studying a similar species, the Nile ...