Researchers uncover a new tegu species from a fossil vertebra in Florida, revealing ancient lizards once roamed North America ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the fossil to a database of tegu bones, confirming Bourque’s suspicions that it ...

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 ...

Tegus, once thought to be newcomers, actually roamed ancient Georgia during a global warm spell millions of years ago — a ...

It didn’t look like a snake or a lizard, but something about it felt important. The answer came late one night. Bourque saw a tegu vertebra and paused. It looked just like the fossil he’d kept ...