Incidents like a bare-footed man wrestling one on a Florida highway reveal how these animals can unexpectedly disrupt daily life. Many encounters involve alligators intruding into residential areas or ...

Giant South American lizards are taking over Florida — just one of the latest in a slew of invasive species that have ...

Large python swallows 77-pound deer ... Stroud isn’t done with South Florida’s invasive lizards. He’s currently conducting a study that he’s dubbed the “Lizard Olympics.” ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— In response to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to reconsider its denial of Endangered Species Act protections to the ...

Agamas are native to Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, but invaded Florida through the pet lizard trade in 1976. Their spread was exacerbated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, when agamas either ...

They also tend to live close to large bodies of water ... sea turtles and burrowing owls. In 2021, Florida banned having iguanas as pets. The giant lizards have almost no natural predators ...

After bagging 93 of the invasive lizards, the 8-year-old White City agama hunter took his trophy on a victory lap around school, for show-and-tell in his class, and anywhere else he could find a ...

other pets in USA's Favorite Pet contest See this photo gallery of Florida pets − including dogs, cats, birds and lizards − that are competing for the title of USA's Favorite Pet. Here is what ...