{"id":408565,"date":"2026-01-14T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408565\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:47:13","slug":"huge-lizard-found-in-vacated-alameda-home-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408565\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge lizard found in vacated Alameda home \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge pet lizard was found left behind in a recently vacated home, Alameda police said.<\/p>\n<p>The initial call said the animal was a Komodo dragon \u2014 the world\u2019s largest reptile. It turned out to be an ornate monitor, the police report said.<\/p>\n<p>The species can grow to about 7 feet long (as opposed to 10 feet for the Komodo). The Alameda lizard is believed to be juvenile, and photos indicate it is about 2 feet from snout to base of tail, plus 3 more feet of tail.<\/p>\n<p>The lizard was secured and taken to the East Bay Vivarium, a Berkeley reptile store, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge pet lizard was found left behind in a recently vacated home, Alameda police said. The initial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[97106,163066,2837,62657,49,3335,86767,48,97928,172128,4245,884,44,9299,172129,66,12270,22024,323],"class_list":["post-408565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alameda","tag-alameda-county","tag-animals","tag-bay-area","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pets","tag-pets-and-animals","tag-science","tag-things-to-do","tag-weird-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}