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

Green iguanas are mostly plant-eaters. Nile monitors are carnivores that actively hunt vertebrate prey. Monitors are bulkier, with longer necks, narrower snouts and thicker, more muscular tails. They ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the ...

Wildlife biologists and trappers in Florida say Nile monitors are an up-and-coming invasive species that threatens native wildlife.

Nile monitors are classified as invasive and are not protected in Florida except under anti-cruelty laws, according to the ...

Florida wildlife officials and researchers say Nile monitors, large predatory lizards native to sub-Saharan Africa, have ...

Nile monitors are spreading through canals, stressing native nests. Florida expands removal rules and urges fast sighting reports.

The state of Florida's 'Dirty Dozen' invasive species list recently got an update, adding three new species to the list and remove three that pose less of ...

Renee Aland had to do a double take when she spotted a 5-foot lizard along the side of the road. It wasn't an alligator, at least not with that long of a tongue. Aland spotted the monitor lizard, ...

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 ...