reptiles

The Argentine black and white tegu can grow as long as 130 cm and eats just about anything (Photograph by Nicole Craine)

The stubborn, scaly, fork-tongued menace plaguing America. (No, the other one.)

Allen Abel takes a trip to Georgia to look for the Argentine tegu. They’re big, fast and have a penchant for eating just about anything.

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Snake on a plane forces pilot to land while it slithers around his legs

A snake forced a pilot in Australia to call mayday and return to the airport, when it appeared from behind the dashboard to slither around his legs, in a scene that could have come out of Hollywood’s 2006 thriller Snakes on a Plane.

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Police blotter

A round-up of the bizarre crimes reported across the country