Georgia has more than alligators, turtles, and snakes. While they are the opposite of a welcome guest, multiple Argentine tegu have decided to call this home. What are they and what dangers (if any) ...

Deep in the Everglades, a voracious reptile with attractive spotted scales is among one of the state's most worrisome invasive species. The Argentine black-and-white tegu, a large lizard that can grow ...

July 23 (UPI) --Police in Washington investigated a report of a 10-foot alligator in the Granite Falls area, which was found to be a much smaller escaped Argentine tegu lizard. The Snohomish County ...

Over 100 invasive lizards the size of dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying the local ecosystem, including killing endangered species. The Argentine black and white tegu ...

Argentine black and white tegus aren't the most recent invasive species in Florida, and they won't be the last, unfortunately. What they are doing are making themselves at home in Florida. And not ...

Wildlife officials in Georgia recently issued a warning about Argentine black and white tegus, 4-foot-long omnivorous reptiles that have been spotted in at least two counties. But earlier this week a ...

The Argentine Black and White Tegu, once a darling of the pet trade, is now banned in South Carolina. SC Department of Natural Resources/provided Imagine this. You’re out walking around somewhere in ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KIMT/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A man was reunited with his pet lizard after it escaped its enclosure. For five straight days, a pet Argentine black and white tegu named "Porkchop" was on ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- It is now illegal to buy, sell or release an Argentine Black and White Tegu lizard in North Carolina. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission voted for that back in ...

The Argentine tegu lizard doesn’t grow nearly as big as a Burmese python but it may be a greater threat to South Florida’s native animals. At a maximum size of four feet, a tegu can’t gobble down a ...