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Monitor lizards are a large group of lizards that fall under the genus Varanus. There are many different types, and they vary widely in size and appearance. Monitor lizards are not native to the ...

Nearly 500,000 water monitor lizards are slaughtered each year legally in Indonesia for luxury products in western countries. Because the profit margins are huge, the pressure on wild monitor lizards ...

This is Varanus obor, the Sago monitor, or Torch monitor lizard. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

Were it not for the heroic actions of two police officers, a monitor lizard that wandered into the middle of a busy road in Singapore over the weekend would've become roadkill. With any luck, he or ...