Image: Maria Lieberman via Storyful
The Lizard King cometh. No, not Jim Morrison. The REAL Lizard King - an Asian water monitor named "Bamboo" that's been chilling in a South Florida neighborhood and appears to be unstoppable, or at least untrappable.
The 6-foot, 100-pound (1.8-metre 45-kilogram) monstrosity has been thwomping around in the Broward County town of Davie since Monday and has thwarted all attempts at capture, including hooks, hunting dogs and human hands.
Experts have identified it as an Asian water monitor, a breed of gargantuan lizard native to Southeast Asia. It is the second-heaviest lizard species - a runner-up to the Komodo dragon.
They have an outstanding sense of smell, and have even been used in Asia for missing persons and death investigations.
Bamboo first appeared in the backyard of the Lieberman family on August 27 and has returned several times since. At first, the family thought it was an alligator because he was so massive.
Then he flicked his skinny, forked tongue.
"It looked like a dinosaur," homeowner Maria Lieberman told WSVN 7News.
"My kids were screaming. We just watched 'Jurassic Park', so it was insane."
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