Join the tour! Meet a Burmese Python, Water Monitor Rusty, and gators Darth and Gomer at the reptile zoo. See Rusty eat squid and watch the gators battle over octopus!

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet Rah! He’s a Nile monitor lizard at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe. They’re known to be intense predators with fast speeds, sharp teeth, and powerful tails ...

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What do Nile monitor lizards look like? Nile monitors are olive green to black in color and have cream-colored or yellow stripes on the jaw and head. They have rows of yellowish, V-shaped stripes ...

The Nile monitor is an invasive, aggressive lizard species established in parts of Florida. These large lizards can grow over 6 feet long and are skilled swimmers and climbers. While not venomous, ...

A large, exotic lizard named Goose frightened residents and was eventually rescued from the wild after it escaped a home in Massachusetts. A water monitor lizard was spotted on the loose in a small ...

In July, naturalist Soumyadip Santra was on a trip to the Indian Sundarbans, part of the world’s largest mangrove forest, when he witnessed an unusual scene: a fishing cat jumped on an adult monitor ...

According to the Guardian, the monitor lizard population in Bangkok is surging. Lumphini Park, a popular recreational area in the heart of the city, is also home to around 400 of these giant lizards.

A fishing cat in the Sundarbans was photographed preying on a monitor lizard, which is not part of its typical diet. Fishing cats are the state animal of West Bengal and are known to live on a diet of ...