The lizard first was documented in Florida in 1976 and has since established in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Collier, Lee, Broward, Palm Beach, Charlotte, Sarasota, Manatee, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk ...

Over 1,500 tegu lizards have been reported or caught in St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County man is Florida's top tegu trapper. Tegus eat alligator eggs and juvenile gopher tortoises.

The lizards are being put to the test, but so are the researchers. “My students are hating me, because we just finished processing 2.5 thousand slo-mo videos of lizards running.” ...