This is the horrifying moment a huge monitor lizard was found climbing through a family's bathroom. The shocked locals heard banging coming from the home before discovering the beast in the ...

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.

Wouldn’t it be fun if you could hang upside down from the ceiling or a branch like a gecko? Geckos belong to the lizard family, and they can be anywhere from 2 to 24 inches long. They help us by ...

The prolific reptiles have been embraced by residents of Cincinnati and dubbed ‘Lazarus lizards’, after the last name of the family who brought them here. They’re even considered a naturalized species ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A 10-year-old boy, whose stepfather, Fred Lazarus Jr., founded the retail chain that would later become Macy’s, smuggled 10 lizards in a sock from a family trip and set them ...

READ MORE: 16,000 poems and counting: ZipOdes judge sees South Florida through everybody else's eyes The family also noticed that the lizard population has changed throughout the years.

If you live in California, you’ve probably seen, or held, a western fence lizard. According to a leading dataset of animal and plant observations, the species is the most commonly spotted ...

They grabbed the can as the lizard thrashed around trying to dislodge ... and camping trips with the "older parts of the family", with instilling in him a sense of care for the environment.