ATTICA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Attica police are searching for a Nile monitor lizard that escaped its cage. Police say on July 29 a resident was moving out of an apartment when the 4 1/2-foot long Nile monitor ...

APOPKA, Fla. (WFLA) — A central Florida homeowner spotted an unusual sight on his front porch: a huge monitor lizard peering in through a window. A video, shared by an Apopka man, shows the lizard ...

News that a monitor lizard is loose in the Village of Attica, New York, has inspired a lot of jokes and memes on social media in the past few days. Facebook screenshot Just weeks after cities in North ...

ATTICA — The Nile monitor lizard running loose in the village has died, police said Friday. A resident alerted officers today that he was driving about 3 p.m. Thursday on Main Street when he ran over ...

A disturbance from a mischievous Nile monitor sets off a mass hatching event. When a mother crocodile leaves her nest unattended, a Nile monitor takes the opportunity to steal her eggs. The mother ...

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — An invasive species of lizard known as Nile monitors is taking over one Florida man’s backyard. According to NBC affiliate WBBH, Cape Coral resident Jason Derkevics spotted a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six-foot predatory lizards normally found along the Nile River in Africa have set up shop in South Florida — and Palm Beach County canals are a hot spot. Nile monitors, which ...

Monitor lizards are a genus of large lizards found in Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. There are 80 recognized species of monitor lizards, including the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor, and ...

Was right here and he was big. He had to have been 4 ft living on the canal in Northeast Cape Jill Verd and her three dogs, Cooper Jack and Bear are used to seeing birds and lizards. I don't mind the ...