These lizards play beneficial roles in controlling insect populations. While they might startle or cause minor issues if handled improperly, their primary defence mechanisms are not poisonous but ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used its Endangered Species Act emergency authority today to protect an Indonesian monitor lizard that is highly coveted in the pet trade. Today’s ...

Ashley Goetz Reptile keepers are warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter ... Keepers can’t pick up a huge and potentially dangerous lizard like Murphy, so they train him to participate ...