"They're very wild, they're very active. They don't make good pets at all. They don't calm down." ...

"It's like catching a tornado. Swim, burrow, they climb trees, they are like modern day velociraptors." ...

If you care about Florida’s native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards — powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long — ...

Powerful, carnivorous Nile monitor lizards are expanding through South Florida's canal systems, with sightings climbing sharply, according to wildlife officials.

Nile monitors are spreading across South Florida. They are olive-green or black, with yellow striping on their head and jaw ...

Nile monitor lizards, an invasive species, are making their presence known in Cape Coral as temperatures rise.

Invasive Nile monitor lizards are carnivorous, can grow over six feet long, and are considered dangerous to humans and pets. Most of the over 2,000 sightings have occurred in South Florida, ...

Florida wildlife officials and researchers say Nile monitors, large predatory lizards native to sub-Saharan Africa, have established a breeding population in southwest Florida that can threaten native ...

FLORIDA – Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles, from the iguanas that fall out of trees in the winter, to the Burmese Pythons slithering through the Everglades. However, one species ...