The blue-spotted tree monitor is a type of lizard with a black body and bright blue scales. These arboreal (tree-dwelling) lizards are both beautiful and agile, with curling claws that help them to scramble up (or down) tree limbs with ease. This species is found in humid rainforests on the small island of Batanta in the Southwest Papua province, Indonesia, where it dines on small eggs, small lizards, and insects like grasshoppers, moths, and beetles.