Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and extended tails. When people see .

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.

Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Green iguanas are mostly plant-eaters. Nile monitors are carnivores that actively hunt vertebrate prey. Monitors are bulkier, with longer necks, narrower snouts and thicker, more muscular tails. They ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the ...

For invasive reptile hunters in Florida, there’s another predatory lizard on the radar. Nile monitors, native to Africa, are populating parts of the Sunshine State, and they can now be killed ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles. But this 6-foot-long African lizard poses an especially big threat.

Researchers in Uganda have discovered a complex network of animals feeding on bats infected with Marburg virus, capturing startling footage of potential spillover risks for the first time.

Rapid DNA tests, x-ray fluorescence guns, and other technologies are being deployed in the fight against wildlife trafficking ...

Nile monitors are spreading through canals, stressing native nests. Florida expands removal rules and urges fast sighting reports.

The Komodo dragon holds the title of Earth’s largest living lizard. These massive reptiles dominate Indonesia’s volcanic islands as apex predators, facing no natural enemies in their realm. Their size ...