These scavengers have found a way to find food in an urban metropolis like Bangkok.

This is the heartwarming moment firefighters rescue a monitor lizard stuck in a pipe. The group of emergency workers split a ...

A giant monitor lizard pops out of its hideout in a dirty marsh covered with water-hyacinth and surrounded by bush at Madangang, 20 km (12 miles) from Bangladesh capital Dhaka May 21.

"I've handled him daily since he was very small. He knows my scent, voice. He's tolerant and comfortable with me," the poster told Newsweek.

Asian water monitors can be dangerous to children and dogs, as they have a tendency to bite. ... The 8-foot-long, 100-pound lizard was suspected to be a pet that had escaped into the wild.

A Michigan man got a scaly surprise outside his home this week. Richard Heatherly of Dearborn Heights spotted a water monitor lizard on his front porch Tuesday ...

A massive, 5-foot-long lizard, presumed to be an Asian water monitor, was seen scurrying around a busy road in western Florida recently. "He’s huge," Renee Aland can be heard saying in video she ...

According to HDOA, water monitor lizards are tropical animals native to India, China, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea Islands. They may grow up to 10 feet in ...

The lizard was most likely an Asian water monitor, according to Ali Mulla, a conservation biology graduate student at the University of South Florida who’s studying a similar species, ...

While most monitors try to take on prey within their own size range, one monitor lizard, the Komodo dragon, can take down prey that’s as large as water buffalo.