WEBSTER, Mass. — A community in Massachusetts is on the lookout for Goose. But Goose is not a bird; it’s a water monitor lizard with an avian name. Goose, a 5-foot-long lizard, escaped his home in ...

Forest Department officials on Monday arrested one R. Karthi, 35, from Sirumalai in Dindigul district on the charges of hunting a monitor lizard and consuming its meat after killing it.

While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This invasive Florida species can climb, swim and is highly aggressive. Meet the Nile ...

Monitor lizards are a large group of lizards that fall under the genus Varanus. There are many different types, and they vary widely in size and appearance. Monitor lizards are not native to the ...

Renee Aland had to do a double take when she spotted a 5-foot lizard along the side of the road. It wasn't an alligator, at least not with that long of a tongue. Aland spotted the monitor lizard, ...

This is the dramatic moment a monitor lizard tries to escape a wildlife team who were capturing it in a house in Thailand. The massive reptile weighing 154lbs (70kg) had skittered through the gate of ...