Renee Aland had to do a double take when she spotted a 5-foot lizard along the side of the road. It wasn't an alligator, at ...

When we got closer, I looked and I saw his tongue, lizard tongue coming out ... that the animal was a non-native Asian water monitor lizard and was estimated to be five feet long.

Ashley Goetz Reptile keepers are warming up to a new monitor lizard this winter ... Then, they touch their tongue to the roof of their mouth, where the Jacobson’s organ analyzes the scent ...