McKenzie identified the climbing critter as a lace monitor lizard, also known as a tree goanna. A video of the rescue posted ...

This is the terrifying moment a wild monitor lizard was plucked from a family's toilet bowl in Thailand. The juvenile reptile was seen poking its head out of the water as it made splashing sounds in ...

Two monitor lizards were spied feasting on a carcass, potentially that of an otter, in an Ulu Pandan canal. The 15-second video, posted on the Facebook Group Singapore Wildlife Sightings shows two ...

Monitor lizards across the world are in demand to ... notes that hundreds of thousands of these animals are poached annually from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and parts of Africa.

A water monitor lizard that went missing in Hong Kong for ... a hiker at the nature reserve in Tai Po on Sunday afternoon. “[Animal care staff] rushed to the area and spotted Aberdeen resting ...

The earless monitor lizard is one of the rarest reptile species known. These strange animals are ... [+] semi-aquatic and only found on the island of Borneo. The earless monitor dates back to the ...

The lizard was believed to have been illegally smuggled into the city for food or the pet trade. Aberdeen served as an animal ambassador for the centre since July 2015, educating visitors about ...

In what may be a world first, the project is tackling monitor lizards, with early eradication efforts already killing most individuals. Loosiep island is an isolated speck of land on the edge of ...

Here’s what it takes to catch a dragon. Slaughter a goat. Cut it up. Enlist a few strong friends to hoist three ten-foot-long steel traps, grab bags of goat meat, and trek a few miles up and ...

Another year, another monitor lizard invading the track during the ... Track marshals were mobilised to chase down the animal, which broke into a full sprint to evade them.

Reptile wranglers in Australia responded to a Queensland home to help out with an unusual problem -- a lizard on the roof.

A water monitor lizard that had served as an animal ambassador at a Hong Kong conservation centre for nine years has died. The 16-year-old male lizard, named “Aberdeen”, died on August 30 ...