Rodney Irwin specializes in an animal that few others can catch, but poses a threat to Everglades wildlife: tegus. Irwin, the most prolific tegu hunter and trapper in South Florida, has more than 70 ...

As Mike Perez mingled with visitors at the recent Python Challenge awards event in Miami, his left arm supported the weight of a black-and-white lizard with a body as thick as a linebacker's bicep.

Florida has an invasive reptile problem, and it’s not just the Burmese python. Though it doesn’t have its own Super Bowl or a Discovery Channel TV show dedicated to its hunters, the Argentine black ...

For state government, the danger posed by exotic reptiles has been harder to spot than a Burmese python hiding in the brush. But at last, the state’s wildlife commission has opened its eyes and ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Thursday will take up a plan to address tegu lizards, pythons, and other invasive reptiles that officials say are causing ...

University of Florida wildlife biologist Lindsey Garner holds an Argentine tegu trapped in the southern Everglades. Biologists fear the number of invasive reptiles is increasing and may threaten ...

With his trusty German shepherd in tow, Rodney Irwin drives past a state mental hospital at the edge of the Everglades and pulls into the brush. A machete rests on the floorboard beneath his feet, and ...