Giant lizards invade South Georgia

Late in 2018 officials from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources began receiving reports of large lizards in South Georgia, including Toombs and Tattnall Counties.  At the start of this year they began trapping the creatures, revealed to be tegu lizards, which can grow up to four feet long and wreak havoc on local wildlife that may otherwise be unaccustomed to avoiding giant lizards, at least when away from the water.  The sudden proliferation of an enormous invasive lizard species that has few natural predators and can reproduce quickly sounds like the plot out of a horror movie – and has South Georgia’s ship SINKING…