"All it takes is a couple, then we end up with a 'pythons-in-the-Everglades' sort of scenario."
-- Dave Yolitz
You thought Peter’s rock agama was bad? Florida, meet tegu.
This foreign lizard — the Argentine black and white tegu — can grow almost five feet long, is making itself at home in Florida. And with plenty to feast on here in the Sunshine State, tegus are coming to a town near you.
That is if they're not already chilling in your backyard.
This cold-blooded, devilish-looking lizard is stomping through the Space Coast, the rest of Florida, Georgia and is scattered as far north as Maryland. And taming tegu in our wild has proven not so black and white.
Read more at Florida Today