Nile monitor lizards are dangerous, invasive predators in Florida. Here's where they are in the state and what to do if you ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles. But this 6-foot-long African lizard poses an especially big threat.

In Florida, winter can arrive with a sweater, a space heater and, on some mornings, a lizard dropping from a tree. The image of a rigid iguana on a sidewalk has long been treated as one of the state’s ...

Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Bright green lizards cling to tree trunks in neighborhoods across South Florida. These reptiles are Cuban knight anoles, large arboreal lizards originally from Cuba. Decades ago, they appeared mainly ...

South Florida is already home to iguanas, crocodiles, and alligators, and all manner of dangerous animals (looking at you, Burmese pythons), but few likely know we also have dragons. Invasive species ...

Nile monitor lizards, an invasive and dangerous species, are spreading across Florida. Here's where they are and what to do ...

Green iguanas are mostly plant-eaters. Nile monitors are carnivores that actively hunt vertebrate prey. Monitors are bulkier, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nile monitor, in its native range. Monitors are one of Florida's problematic invasive species. For invasive reptile hunters in ...

The winter freeze that embraced the sunshine state for several days caused iguanas to fall from trees as the frigid temperatures stunned the invasive species. Green iguanas are listed as an invasive ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the Burmese Pythons slithering through the Everglades. However, one species has been ...