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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Monitor lizards are a genus of large lizards found in Africa, Southern Asia, and Australia. There are 80 recognized species of monitor lizards, including the Komodo dragon, Asian water monitor ...

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 ...