Georgia pet owners are being encouraged to register their pet reptiles after neighborhood children discovered a three-foot-long lizard living under a porch in Athens last month. The Argentine black ...

Nov. 1 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Georgia said a woman was unaware of a 3-foot tegu lizard living under her porch until neighborhood children told her about a "giant lizard." The Georgia Department ...

History has been made at the Nashville Zoo. The zoo has just become the first organization accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to house the hatching of two crocodile tegus, a lizard ...

Wildlife officials are worried that an invasive lizard species causing problems in at least two neighboring states could now be taking root in South Carolina, with 100 reported sightings in less than ...

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, ...