Invasive Tegus eat vulnerable species like the American crocodile, Key Largo woodrat and juvenile gopher tortoises ...

This discovery was made by group of Brazilian and Canadian biologists at São Paulo State University in 2016, and scientists have since deemed the tegu the only warm-blooded lizard on earth.

Almost all reptiles are cold-blooded (the only warm-blooded reptile is the tegu lizard), meaning their body temperature depends on the environment. To stay warm, they bask in the sun, whereas ...

In 2016, researchers supported by FAPESP had shown that tegu lizards reach higher temperatures than the burrows they inhabit in spring. This new study has found a physiological explanation for the ...

South Florida is on high alert following the sighting of a new reptilian invader: the giant lizard known as the black and ...

As of this Memorial Day weekend, it got a lot harder to bring a species of large lizard into the Palmetto State. It is now illegal to bring a tegu lizard into South Carolina or breed the lizards ...

Argentine black and white tegus are not native to the U.S. but are increasingly found across the South and Southeast. They are considered an invasive lizard species because of the threats to ...

Resplendent in scaly beauty with vivid colors and rows of protective spines, the green iguana is one of several big lizards in Florida. The Nile monitor and tegu (see below) are the other common large ...

Florida’s latest invasive species is a 4-foot-long South American lizard with a taste for eggs that threatens the Everglades’ ground-nesting animals. Laura Roberts has always loved reptiles, so she ...

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