For years, scientists could not figure out what creature that a fossil stored at the Florida Museum of Natural History […] ...

A newly discovered prehistoric tegu fossil in Florida reveals the ancient origins of these invasive lizards, challenging ...

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

Scientists named it Wautaugategu formidus. The name “Wautauga” comes from a nearby forest. “Formidus”, Latin for “warm”, nods ...

Today, tegus are considered invasive creatures in Florida, but a new paper suggests they’ve lived in the southeastern United ...

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

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 wreaking havoc in Florida's ecosystems, the exotic lizard was classified as ...

The lizards may have swum or “island hopped” from South America and lived on what was coastline ... leading the Argentine black and white tegu to be labeled as invasive in Florida, according to the ...

Six-foot predatory lizards normally found along the Nile River in Africa have set up shop in South Florida — and Palm Beach County canals are a hot spot. Nile monitors, which can grow to just ...