It uses its climbing abilities to eat the eggs and young of other animals. And in this footage captured for the BBC TV film Komodo: The Deadly Bite, a lace monitor finds a nest full of opossum babies.

“There’s danger in this urban paradise.” Huge carnivorous lizards stalk this popular city park alongside humans The world’s second largest lizard has made this Indonesian park their home – alongside ...

Bangkok, nine o'clock in the morning. The tropical heat is slowly settling over Thailand's capital like a damp towel.

(WKRC) — If you weren't afraid of reptiles before, just wait. Komodo dragons may look less assuming than other monitor lizards or crocodiles, but they're just as fierce. They average 175 pounds and ...

The supersized dinosaurs of the past may no longer roam our planet, but the age of truly colossal reptiles is far from over. In fact, many of the world’s largest lizards belong to the genus Varanus, a ...

Like other invasive species, including Burmese pythons and green iguanas, it’s legal to humanely kill Nile monitors on private property without a permit, with landowner permission, or on one of 32 ...

Alameda police were recently called to a home where the former tenants had reportedly left behind a large Komodo dragon. When police arrived, it turned out to be a young ornate Nile monitor — a lizard ...