Comments on: Arizona: Sightings Of Giant Monitor Lizard

By: Hollyitis

Hollyitis — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:13:59 +0000

I lived in Bisbee Arizona in 1983. ON Thanksgiving Day that year, I was walking alone and seen a lizard that was HUGE! Its head looked identical to the one in the picture. It was looking at me from the tall weeds at the base of the mountain. Nobody believed me when I got back home and told them I had seen a huge lizard.

By: Cryptidcrazy

Cryptidcrazy — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:50:39 +0000

I could have sworn an Alligator Monitor was the 2nd largest lizard in the world. Aren’t they larger than the Asian Water Monitor?

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Sun, 30 May 2010 14:21:00 +0000

You might be surprised what you can find, if you just go out and look.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Sun, 30 May 2010 05:09:48 +0000

Monitor lizards are actually very common as pets so if this was an escapee, it would not surprise me at all.

What I do find interesting is that it survived so well for an extended amount of time in this desert environment. While there are species of monitor lizards that live in arid climates, Asian water monitors are pretty specifically adapted to tropical watery habitats. These are hardy animals, but a monitor of this particular species going for several months in the desert is interesting to me.

By: SIRUPAPERS

SIRUPAPERS — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:21:00 +0000

Wait a minute, you mean this wasn’t a bunch of otters swimming in formation? And the eyewitness testimony wasn’t horribly wrong? Plus you find things when you take eyewitness reports seriously and then go looking? My head is spinning at such strange concepts!