Argentine black and white tegus aren't the most recent invasive species in Florida, and they won't be the last, unfortunately. What they are doing are making themselves at home in Florida. And not ...

The tegu, long thought to be an invasive species, turns out to have arrived in North America about 16 million years earlier than expected. The exotic pet trade brings millions of animals into the U.S.

Some North Floridians surely feel they are missing out on something really neat by not having torporous iguanas falling out of trees. Or pythons as long as a minivan slithering around, for that matter ...

OCALA NATIONAL FOREST - As if the latest reports of Burmese pythons, monitor lizards and Cuban tree frogs crawling around Florida are not enough to creep you out, there's a scary new invader in town.

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 ...

In this file photo, Tarasca, a tegu lizard, is displayed at the Palm Beach Zoo as an ambassador animal. (Thomas Cordy, © 2013 The Palm Beach Post) WEST PALM BEACH ...

The golden tegu lizard, previously thought to be a single species, may actually comprise four distinct clades, including three new cryptic species, according to a new study. The golden tegu lizard, ...

With his trusty German shepherd in tow, Rodney Irwin drives past a state mental hospital at the edge of the Everglades and pulls into the brush. A machete rests on the floorboard beneath his feet, and ...