Watch out for Godzilla’s little cousins crossing

Slow down for lizards: A road sign depicting Godzilla and Ultraman warn motorists for possible monitor lizards crossing at the Universiti Sains Malaysia campus. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Monitor lizards are important cleaners of the environment, for they scavenge carcasses before they can rot and yield harmful pathogens.

But when their habitat is too close to humanity, these reptiles are in danger of becoming roadkill because they tend to lumber languidly across the street.