A 5-foot-long water monitor lizard named Goose has been safely captured in Massachusetts after leading authorities on a 2-week chase through two states.

Goose, the 5-foot-long water monitor lizard that escaped its home weeks ago, has been captured, according to the Webster Police Department. The Webster Police Department announced on their Facebook page Saturday the capture of the lizard,

A human-sized lizard that escaped its owner and avoided capture for weeks by crisscrossing the Massachusetts-Connecticut border has been caught, officials announced Saturday. Webster Police Department said in a Facebook post the 5-foot-long Asian water monitor known as Goose has finally been found,

On Aug. 2, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center got reports from New Jersey troopers that a boater in the Barnegat Bay near the Inlet hit a 20-foot minke whale, according to a news release by the stranding center. The crash threw a passenger overboard and caused the boat to nearly capsize, officials said.

A boat hit a whale in Barnegat Bay Saturday afternoon, sending one of its passengers overboard, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The incident happened around 3:40 p.m., when a vessel struck a 20-foot minke whale,