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.

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,