A Georgia homeowner was in for a shock when she found a 3-foot reptile living under her house, wildlife officials say. A woman living in Athens discovered there was an Argentine black and white tegu ...

St. Lucie County is home to an emerging and breeding population of invasive tegu lizards, but also home to one of the state's most skilled trappers. A staggering 1,533 Argentine black and white tegus ...

Read full article: Python hitches sailboat ride from Florida Keys to mainland McKayla Spencer, the Interagency Python Management Coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

An Argentine black and white tegu. This species can grow up to four feet long. Argentine black and white tegu lizards seem to break a lot of reptile rules. They’re smart enough to recognize individual ...

DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW)– South Carolinians have been running into giant lizards where they shouldn’t be – 13 invasive tegu lizards have been found since fall, including one in Darlington County ...

Florida has an invasive reptile problem, and it’s not just the Burmese python. Though it doesn’t have its own Super Bowl or a Discovery Channel TV show dedicated to its hunters, the Argentine black ...

Like most reptiles, tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) were thought to be consistently ectothermic: They can’t sustain a body temperature that’s substantially higher than the ambient temperature. But ...

WEST PALM BEACH — The Argentine black and white tegu is multiplying and mobilizing in the backwoods and backyards of the Sunshine State — a creature more ominous than pythons because of its cold ...