The tegu, long thought to be an invasive species, turns out to have arrived in North America about 16 million years earlier ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After wreaking havoc in Florida's ecosystems, the exotic lizard was classified as ...

The new species of tegu lizard, Wautaugategu formidus, appears to have come to North America millions of years earlier than the invasive modern-day tegus in Florida and Georgia, according to a ...