One of the world’s largest species of lizards, an ornate monitor, was found abandoned in an Alameda home last month, police ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet Rah! He’s a Nile monitor lizard at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe. They’re known ...

The lizard is now at the East Bay Vivarium reptile shop, police said. Alameda is about 10 miles east of San Francisco. Ornate ...

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 ...

Why it's awesome: Earless monitor lizards are dragon-like reptiles that are so rare they're dubbed the "Holy Grail" of herpetology — the study of reptiles and amphibians. The species is the only known ...

PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) – Two reptile experts worked together to wrangle a monitor lizard from a storm drain on the side of a Phoenix freeway Wednesday morning. The large lizard was seen on the side ...