The brown basilisk, a nonnative lizard, is gaining ground across South and Central Florida, and University of Florida IFAS scientists need more data to determine its status and potential impacts ...

The brown basilisk is usually found from tropical Mexico down through Central America to northern South America, according to anapsid.org. Basilisks eat lots of insects including worms, ...

University of Florida researchers want residents to let them know when they see the brown basilisk lizard, a.k.a. the "Jesus lizard." ...

Unlike Jesus, though, brown basilisk lizards — native to Central America — are ferocious predators. And scientists are worried about the lizard's spread into Florida and what that might mean ...

This ghostly creature was sited in west Delray Beach. If you have not seen this before, you will be seeing more of these shortly. It’s the “brown basilisk lizard.” It is also known as the ...

First, let’s discuss the names. I have one book that calls them common basilisks and another that calls them brown basilisks. I turned to the trusty internet to clarify and typed ‘brown basilisk’ into ...