Police revealed that Goose,​ the five-foot-long water monitor lizard who escaped a home in Webster, Massachusetts,​ two weeks ago, was difficult to find because it had been hiding under tree roots, around two miles from its home.

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,