While not venomous, their bite can cause serious infections and they are potentially dangerous to people and pets. This ...

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 ...

STEWART: A VIDEO-GONE-VIRAL OF A LARGE LIZARD SCALING A WINDOW SCREEN IN APOPKA HAS PUT SOME NEIGHBORS ON EDGE. MICHELLE: AND FOR GOOD REASON. IT IS LARGE. WESH 2’S AMANDA DUKES SOUGHT OUT THE EXPERTS ...

This lizard isn’t on the lam anymore. A sizable and “elusive” Asian water monitor had been loose in Key Largo for more than a year, but thanks to the work of volunteers, the public is safe, according ...

A giant, spectacularly colored new species of monitor lizard has just been revealed to scientists in the Philippines. The reptile, which is roughly 6 feet long (1.8 meters), is kin to Komodo dragons, ...

Monitor lizards, believed to be invasive species on some Pacific islands, got there long before humans, a new study says. By Marion Renault You can’t accuse a monitor lizard of being a picky eater.

Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming the remote Oombulgurri floodplains of tropical Western Australia, ecologists report.