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The five-foot-long water monitor lizard that escaped from his home in Webster two weeks ago has been found.Webster Police say Goose has been captured, although they did not immediately provide details ...

After a large monitor lizard was recently liberated from a storm drain on the side of Loop 101 in Phoenix, people began to wonder what monitors are and whether they belong in Arizona. A monitor lizard ...

Archie, the monitor lizard liberated from the side of a freeway on Wednesday, was reunited with his owner, the Phoenix Herpetological Society, which conducted the rescue, said Thursday. The Arizona ...

8/2/25 UPDATE: The water monitor has been safely captured, officials said Saturday. A massive lizard that recently escaped from an area home was spotted this week in a southern Massachusetts town.

There's been a new sighting of the water monitor lizard that's been wandering around parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The five-foot-long lizard named Goose crawled out of a second-floor window ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Reptile wranglers in Australia responded to a Queensland home to help out with an unusual problem -- a lizard on the roof. Stuart McKenzie, owner of Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7, ...

Goose, a five-foot-long water monitor lizard that escaped his home weeks ago and was recently spotted in Connecticut, has returned to the Bay State, Massachusetts Environmental Police said after they ...