The creatures can grow up to 5 feet long. Officials issue warning after hikers spot huge invasive lizard lurking in state park: 'If you see it, back away safely' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Argentine black and white tegus aren't the most recent invasive species in Florida, and they won't be the last, unfortunately.

Over 1,500 tegu lizards have been reported or caught in St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County man is Florida's top tegu trapper. Tegus eat alligator eggs and juvenile gopher tortoises. St. Lucie County ...

The tegu is a large, invasive, commonly black and white lizard from Argentina. They can grow up to 4 feet long and weighing 10 pounds or more, according to Georgia Wildlife. Unlike some other lizards, ...

OLD TOWN, Maine (WABI) - Old Town Police say they are still looking for a lizard that escaped it’s home in Old Town almost two weeks ago. According to a Facebook post from Old Town Police, a Tegu ...

The tegu suffered frostbite and had to have nonviable tissue from his tongue amputated New England Wildlife Center Facebook A man found a tegu while shoveling snow in his driveway in Providence, Rhode ...

A large reptile has officials on high alert in a Maine town, authorities shared on social media. Calling the animal a “large lizard on the loose,” the Old Town Police Department shared on Sunday, Aug.

St. Lucie County is home to an emerging and breeding population of invasive tegu lizards, but also home to one of the state's most skilled trappers. A staggering 1,533 Argentine black and white tegus ...