It seems like there was a monitor lizard so large on the loose near Riverside, CA, that the media decided to call it "Godzilla-like".
With a five-foot length, this lizard "Elmer" had apparently escaped it's owner's residence when the owner (Tom Casarez Jr.) was cleaning his glass tank.
What caught my eye was how the Riverside citizens reacted to seeing this giant lizard roaming around the streets.
Residents were apparently freaking out left and right, and even the Animal Control Officer almost jumped back in her truck upon first seeing Elmer.
It would be quite an amazing thing to see this 5-foot lizard quickly scurrying around everywhere. I've seen documentaries on monitor lizards on the Discovery Channel and they are something to definitely take seriously. They move very fast, strike quickly and can give a pretty mean bite.
I can also see where the media would dub this "Godzilla-like". Besides being abnormally large, it closely resembles the lizard-like model used within the 1998 Dean Devlin/Roland Emmerich film
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Can you believe this is somebody's pet too? Apparently it's legal in California to own such an animal.
Here's the original article for further reference:
MSNBC.MSN.COM: Godzilla-like creature nabbed in California Town
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