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.

An elusive water monitor lizard named Goose has been safely captured after a multi-week evasion in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Environmental Police have released new video showing the moment when they captured an escaped water monitor lizard.