Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales.Now researchers from ...

Adult black and white tegu lizard. Dustin Smith/SCDNR The lizards, native to South America, are voracious omnivores that hunt birds, small mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

A lizard as big as a grown human is on the loose after escaping from a home near the Connecticut border. Webster Animal Control posted to its Facebook page on July 18 that a five-foot water monitor ...

South Carolina’s first confirmed black and white tegu lizard was found in Lexington County, SC, the Department of Natural Resources announced Friday. The South American lizard is invasive to the ...

The adult female lizard found in Lexington was 2.5-feet, but others can grow to be 4-feet long and weigh more than 10 pounds. Tegus are “voracious omnivorous lizards,” DNR said.

New population of Argentine Black and White Tegu Lizards in Fort Pierce. These reptiles are an invasive species, and experts ask you to report them immediately. Updated: 6:58 AM EDT Apr 21, 2022 ...

A black-and-white tegu lizard was spotted in Joseph D. Grant County Park in Santa Clara County on June 7 by a group of hikers; Rangers then undertook a five-day search for the animal, which is ...

Argentine black and white tegu lizards, which can grow up to four feet long and weigh more than 10 pounds, are an invasive species in Georgia. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources reported on Friday the first documented sighting of a non-native black and white tegu lizard in the Midlands. DNR first ...

A black and white Tegu lizard sticks out its tongue at the Yebo Gogga exhibition at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg Wednesday, May 13, 2015. By: Tyler Hatfield.