George Rau Jr. brought 10 Wall Lizards from Lake Garda, Italy, to Cincinnati in 1951, and 70 years later, the city has an ever-growing population Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

For Cincinnatians, the sight of a small lizard scurrying across a sidewalk or hanging out on an alley wall isn’t surprising. For more than 70 years, European common wall lizards, known locally ...

For Cincinnatians, the sight of a small lizard scurrying across a sidewalk or hanging out on an alley wall isn’t surprising. For more than 70 years, European common wall lizards, known locally as ...

For more than 70 years, thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, have scurried across sidewalks and lurked in your garden. They're all over Cincinnati, but the reptiles aren't ...

Thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, are roaming around the Cincinnati streets — and now they’re getting bigger in size! Although the common wall lizards are ...

Thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, are roaming around the Cincinnati streets — and now they’re getting bigger in size! Although the common wall lizards are “permanent ...