Gila Monsters live in the Sonoran Desert. They do this weird thing called sunning to get warmed up for action did you know that a Gila Monster is the largest lizard in North America. But don’t worry they won’t attack you their more defensive. You can hang out with them as long as you give them their space Gila Monsters stay hidden in underground burrows for most of the year and only come out after summer rains or in the spring where food is abandoned to find a meal.  A cool fact is that they can follow the trail of a bird or mammal right to the nest and when it finds the nest it will eat every thing inside eggs and young they will swallow it whole they only have to eat three to four meals a year. The Gila Monster is one of the coolest-looking lizards in the world the Gila Monster has a powerful lockjaw with venom and bumpy skin with bony beads of armor.