Strong Island Animal Rescue responded to a Long Island home after a resident mistook a large reptile for an iguana, only to discover it was actually a Tegu lizard. Video taken by the rescue shows the ...

Tegus are like a cross between an iguana, a snake and a lizard, and people are seeing them more often near Palm Beach County. The invasive Argentine black and white tegu has “reproducing populations” ...

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. St. Lucie County ...

Over 100 invasive lizards the size of dogs have been reported throughout South Carolina and are destroying the local ecosystem, including killing endangered species. The Argentine black and white tegu ...

The tegu is a large, invasive, commonly black and white lizard from Argentina. They can grow up to 4 feet long and weighing 10 pounds or more, according to Georgia Wildlife. Unlike some other lizards, ...

TOOMBS COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is raising awareness around an invasive species that has made its way into Georgia. The tegu is native to South America and is ...