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Thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, are roaming around the Cincinnati streets. Although the common wall lizard is “permanent resident” in the city, they aren’t native to the U.S. Lazarus lizard is an invasive reptile native to Italy.
In 1951, a then-10-year-old George Rau Jr. and his stepfather, Fred Lazarus Jr. smuggled 10 Italian lizards from a family trip to Lake Garda. Once back in Ohio, he set the lizards loose in his backyard.
Eric Gangloff, a biology professor at Ohio Wesleyan University and his teams of student researchers have discovered that the lizards are “getting larger and developing longer limbs,” which could be a result of helping them better escape urban predators or house cats.
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