The exotic lizard was abandoned on a Pennsylvania roadside earlier this month, but now has a recent home and name.
Oscar, the Savannah monitor, was reportedly found in a garbage can in Carlisle Township by a delivery man before being taken to Speranza Animal Rescue in Cumberland County.
The non-profit rehab center and sanctuary admitted in a Facebook post that the organization didn’t have any volunteers who had “experience with lizards.”
“We will be rescuing this guy,” wrote Speranza Animal Rescue on Wednesday, May 10.
Speranza Animal Rescue temporarily named the abandoned mysterious lizard “Monster,” but that every one modified when it was placed on the Venom Institute, a non-profit reptile and amphibian conservation organization situated in Coal Township, Pennsylvania.
“A volunteer dropped off the lizard to one in every of our executives and it was in fairly good condition,” Rudy Arceo, founder and president of the Venom Institute, wrote in an email to Fox News Digital.
“[Oscar was] a little bit dehydrated, but he was also barely chubby judging by his appearance,” he continued.
Arceo noted that the scientific name for the lizard species is Savannah Monitor Varanus exanthematicus.
“They arrive from western and central Africa, south of the Sahara,” Arceo wrote.
In line with Areco, Oscar’s length was between 18 and 24 inches on the time of publication.
“They will reach a length of two.5 to 4 feet and live 15 to twenty years in captivity with excellent care and breeding,” explained Areco.
“Their primary weight-reduction plan is insects and sometimes [they] search for meat as [a] complement.”
He added: “After the top of the 30-day quarantine, Oscar will turn into an academic ambassador for our Venom Institute outdoor education division.”
Fox News Digital contacted Speranza Animal Rescue for comment but received no response.