Decades before Key West became an accidental haven for iguanas, the island was populated by another breed of lizard: engaging ...

The last confirmed sighting of the Florida Keys mole skink, one of the most rare and mysterious of the state’s native species, was in 1993 during an ecological survey by Charles E. Hilsenbeck on ...

MIAMI— Following a 2020 legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the Florida Keys mole skink as threatened under the ...

By 2006, they had reached Islamorada in the Florida Keys. They have now been spotted in 11 counties in Florida, but the bulk of the nonnative reptiles remain in Palm Beach County.

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials posted pictures on Facebook with this caption: “Elusive lizard captured!” The lizard was more than 5 feet (1.52 meters) long and weighed 20 pounds (9 ...

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials posted pictures on Facebook with the caption: “Elusive lizard captured!” The lizard was more than 5 feet (1.52 meters) long and weighed 20 pounds (9 kilograms).

Florida Fish and Wildlife officials posted pictures on Facebook with this caption: "Elusive lizard captured!" The lizard was more than 5 feet long and weighed 20 pounds.

The brown basilisk, a nonnative lizard, is gaining ground across South and Central Florida, and University of Florida IFAS scientists need more data to determine its status and potential impacts ...

Orange Lizards Are Invading Florida, ... be in the state and they do have the “potential to negatively impact imperiled butterflies” that are within the Keys and southern Florida.

An invasive lizard species that looks as if its head was dunked in bright orange mac-and-cheese powder is taking over Florida. Peter’s rock agama are darting around neighborhoods this spring ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. – Wildlife officials have finally captured a large invasive Asian water monitor that had been running loose in the Florida Keys for more than a year. Florida Fish and Wildlife ...