A case report to be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) shows how a cake-induced iguana encounter in Costa Rica led to an unusual infection. Here ...

This is not your typical iguana bites toddler story. This one really takes the cake. It could almost be a classic fairy tale, as old as time itself: the child, the lizard, and the cake. For one ...

The bump on a young California girl’s hand was mysterious – and growing. It wasn’t until she had seen two doctors and undergone a biopsy that her family realized the cause: The child had gotten in the ...

Five months later, a strange cyst began to grow on the site the girl was bitten. Scientists found that the girl was infected with a rare bacteria, possibly the first from an iguana bite. A girl's rare ...

A 3-year-old girl’s holiday in Costa Rica was ruined by an iguana in more ways than one. The scaly reptile stole her cake, but not before biting her hand and transmitting a rare bacterial infection ...

The bump on a young California girl's hand was mysterious -- and growing. It wasn't until she had seen two doctors and undergone a biopsy that her family realized the cause: The child had gotten in ...

Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo’s Animal Crime of the Week. Last week, we admired the trash-stealing parrots of Australia. This week features a bitey, cake-stealing iguana that added injury ...

Aged just four, Lena Mars has already learnt a key life lesson. Never get between an iguana and its cake. The Mars family, from San Jose in California, were holidaying on the picturesque beaches of ...

One recent night I was sitting on my deck along with my neighbor the Iguana and my beautiful new wife, the extremely kool Kika. It was the normal scene that we seem to relive every night. Watching the ...