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An up-close encounter with one of nature’s most fascinating reptiles — learning about monitor lizards while safely catching and studying one in the wild.

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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 ...

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, ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed listing the Borneo earless monitor, an elusive lizard endemic to the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, as threatened under the Endangered ...

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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, ...

WEBSTER, Mass. (WPRI) — Goose, the 5-foot-long water monitor lizard who escaped from a Webster home two weeks ago, is no longer on the loose. Massachusetts Environmental Police Captain Scott Amati ...