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A lizard goes on the lam, and reptiles are back under the social media heating lamp

A water monitor loose in Webster is putting reptiles and non-native species in focus. Webster authorities urge the public to report it, but no to touch or try to catch it. A species not suited for ...
WFTV

Lizard on the loose: Officials search for missing pet water monitor

WEBSTER, Mass. — A community in Massachusetts is on the lookout for Goose. But Goose is not a bird; it’s a water monitor lizard with an avian name. Goose, a 5-foot-long lizard, escaped his home in ...
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Lizard still at large: Webster water monitor crosses state lines into Conn.

Residents in a Connecticut town are on alert after a pet water monitor that escaped from a Webster home last week was spotted near a local pond. A search was launched on July 18 after “Goose,” the ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Earless Monitor Lizard Proposed for U.S. Endangered Species Protections

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the earless monitor lizard as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act today following a 2022 petition from the Center for ...
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Florida under threat? The largest and most dangerous lizards in US, Nile monitors, on the loose

Florida is facing an unexpected invasion as wildlife officials are sounding the alarm over the Nile monitor, an invasive lizard species now entrenched in parts of the state and considered the largest ...