Giant South American lizards are taking over Florida — just one of the latest in a slew of invasive species that have ...

James Stroud, of Georgia Tech, speaks with research assistants in the lizard lab at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens in Coral Gables. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel) “Before the ...

at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Florida when suddenly, a new species appeared on the scene: the Puerto Rican crested anole (Anolis cristatellus). Although the two lizard species look very ...

Agamas are native to Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia, but invaded Florida through the pet lizard trade in 1976. Their spread was exacerbated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, when agamas either ...

After bagging 93 of the invasive lizards, the 8-year-old White City agama hunter took his trophy on a victory lap around school, for show-and-tell in his class, and anywhere else he could find a ...