Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person holds an iguana in a residential neighborhood as a cold front moves across South Florida on February 1, 2026, in Downtown ...

In regions where the temperature falls and remains near or below freezing point, reptiles and amphibians, including nonnative green iguanas, are able to achieve a state of torpor, meaning lose their ...

Iguanas left virtually paralyzed by Florida’s recent unseasonable cold snap are dropping like flies from trees, leaving people to scoop them up by the armload. When temperatures plummet, the ...

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The odds of a frozen 10-pound reptile crash-landing on its head in front of you is unlikely, but this time of year in Florida, the chance may be higher than you think. Green iguanas are not native to ...