The animals are active during the day and are skilled climbers and swimmers. Expert issues warning over dangerous creature ...

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, ...

Police got quite the shock after getting a call reporting a “Komodo dragon” living inside a Bay Area home. Officers from the ...

Alameda police were recently called to a home where the former tenants had reportedly left behind a large Komodo dragon. When police arrived, it turned out to be a young ornate Nile monitor - a lizard ...

There is a variety of ways that monitor lizards hunt and obtain food. Sometimes they actively hunt for food, during the day, searching for prey; other times they will wait patiently and sabotage prey ...

After a large monitor lizard was recently liberated from a storm drain on the side of Loop 101 in Phoenix, people began to wonder what monitors are and whether they belong in Arizona. A monitor lizard ...

Meet Rah! He’s a Nile monitor lizard at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe.

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