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 ...

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 ...

An invasive species of giant lizards are cropping up in the southeastern United States. The Argentine black-and-white tegu is a stout lizard native to South America. Populations are now established in ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) - Sid Pennington has decided to spend his retirement trapping invasive lizards threatening native wildlife in his community. Pennington, 60, has singlehandedly captured at least ...

West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) — The Argentine black and white tegu is multiplying and mobilizing in the backwoods and backyards of the Sunshine State — a creature more ominous than pythons because of its ...

The tegu, Salvator merianae, is an omnivore. As a juvenile, its diet consists of insects, snails, fruits and seeds. The adult tegu also consumes these, but becomes more predatory, eating reptile and ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- It is now illegal to buy, sell or release an Argentine Black and White Tegu lizard in North Carolina. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission voted for that back in ...

The Argentine black and white tegu is multiplying and mobilizing in the backwoods and backyards of the Sunshine State — a creature more ominous than pythons because of its cold hardiness and ...

The Argentine black-and-white tegu first appeared in the Florida Everglades nearly a decade ago. Invasive Tegu Lizards Are Eating Their Way Through Southeastern US An invasive species of giant lizards ...

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 lizards have thrived for years in South Florida, but are colonizing as far north as St. Lucie County. A tegu lizard belonging to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is displayed ...