8/2/25 UPDATE: The water monitor has been safely captured, officials said Saturday. A massive lizard that recently escaped from an area home was spotted this week in a southern Massachusetts town.

WEBSTER, Mass. — A community in Massachusetts is on the lookout for Goose. But Goose is not a bird; it’s a water monitor lizard with an avian name. Goose, a 5-foot-long lizard, escaped his home in ...

July 21 (UPI) --Animal control officers in Massachusetts are on the hunt for a water monitor lizard on the loose in Webster. Webster Animal Control said in a Facebook post on Friday that the monitor ...

An Asian water monitor lizard on the loose out of Massachusetts has now allegedly been spotted in a Connecticut town. The 5-foot-long reptile, named Goose, escaped from a home in Webster, Mass., ...

"Lets not give that guy PTSD. You're really scary to other lizards." ...