Monitor lizards aren’t native to the US, but are now listed as an invasive species in parts of Florida. The Nile monitor was introduced around 1990, most likely as part of the exotic pet trade.

plucking a four-foot lizard out of a storm drain on Phoenix's Loop 101 during rush hour. The 15-pound Nile monitor, named Archie, had escaped its backyard enclosure weeks prior, Arizona's Family ...

According to a wildlife site, the Nile monitor lizards can grow to about 120cm to 220cm long, with the largest species attaining 244cm. He says the monitor lizard skin has a historical and even ...

But when mosquitoes fill up on brown anole blood — as those wily little lizards sleep — the skeeters don't feed as much on us. So ostensibly, the risk of infecting us with West Nile or some ...

She called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to report the sighting; after she shared a video of the lizard, they agreed it was likely an Asian water monitor, according to the ...

“It’s possible that brown anole lizards have been unwittingly and unintentionally protecting us from West Nile virus and some other mosquito-transmitted diseases,” said Burkett-Cadena.

But another creature that Florida wildlife officers are trying to get a handle on now is the Nile monitor lizard, a cousin of the most famous of monitor lizards, the Komodo dragon, that has been ...

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“It’s possible that brown anole lizards have been unwittingly and unintentionally protecting us from West Nile virus and some other mosquito-transmitted diseases,” said Burkett-Cadena.