1. The monitor lizard is one of the species that could soon disappear in the wild.

2. Madhuri, an Indian elephant, swings a monitor lizard around by its tail. The unlucky creature had been swept off the ground and was carried around for a number of days by the elephant.

3. The Komodo Dragon is in fact a giant Monitor lizard.

4. I saw a flash of kingfisher blue. A monitor lizard paddled away through the reeds.

5. The Northern Sierra Madre Forest Monitor Lizard could be in danger of having its population drop due to habitat destruction, as well as hunting and trapping for the pet trade.

6. The Panay monitor lizard in the Philippines is endangered for the same reason, as is the sail-fin water lizard whose hatchlings are sought for the pet trade.

7. When all else fails they will eat reptiles, including monitor lizards and sometimes even fish.

8. On Flores, the only sizable predators were the Komodo dragon and another, even larger monitor lizard.

9. Sporting a "mesmerizing pattern of turquoise and blue, " the monitor lizard Varanus macraei was discovered on the island of Batanta, off the Peninsula of Papua, in 2001.