Giant South American lizards are taking over Florida — just one of the latest in a slew of invasive species that have ...

Incidents like a bare-footed man wrestling one on a Florida highway reveal how these animals can unexpectedly disrupt daily ...

On the rare occasion, the temperatures in South Florida drop to the mid-to-low 40s for about 8 hours or more. This is enough time for iguanas to become incapacitated. The iguanas aren't usually dead ...

That, they say, would prevent the ongoing explosion of the voracious vegan lizard throughout the ... banned collecting live wild green iguanas in Florida for the pet trade, a primary way of ...

Adorned with a light-pink tail, the Cedar Key mole skink lives exclusively on the shorelines of the Cedar Key islands, along roughly 10 miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The lizards burrow in dry sand ...

Agamas are native to Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, but invaded Florida through the pet lizard trade in 1976. Their spread was exacerbated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, when agamas either ...

After bagging 93 of the invasive lizards, the 8-year-old White City agama hunter took his trophy on a victory lap around school, for show-and-tell in his class, and anywhere else he could find a ...

other pets in USA's Favorite Pet contest See this photo gallery of Florida pets − including dogs, cats, birds and lizards − that are competing for the title of USA's Favorite Pet.