A lot of people are taught snakes are bad. But once you actually get hands on and learn everything about them then they kind ...

This video provides a detailed, exhibit-by-exhibit tour of all the monitor lizards housed on site. Each segment highlights ...

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

Police got quite the shock after getting a call reporting a “Komodo dragon” living inside a Bay Area home. Officers from the ...

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

Forget something? A young Ornate Nile Monitor supposedly left behind by the former tenants climbs blinds in an Alameda residence. It is now at the East ...

A giant lizard was found abandoned inside an empty Alameda residence. According to the Alameda Police Department, officers ...

A surprising number of exotic birds are OK to own in California. With the exception of the aforementioned Quaker parrot, all ...

Cane toads secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, including dogs and cats.

If you haven’t heard of a goanna before, think VERY LARGE LIZARD. It’s a general name for several varieties of monitor lizard that live in Australia. And like so many, shall we say, “startling” ...

A large, exotic lizard named Goose frightened residents and was eventually rescued from the wild after it escaped a home in Massachusetts. A water monitor lizard was spotted on the loose in a small ...

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor ...