And just as the High Line snakes over busy shops, restaurants and bars, several sought-after hotspots have already started popping up under the archways of the Luchtsingel.
"Lizards and snakes rivalled the dinosaurs in terms of diversity, making it just as much an 'Age of Lizards' as an 'Age of Dinosaurs, '" Dr Longrich said.
Croagh Patrick is just one of several places where St Patrick is famously claimed to have banished snakes from Ireland, chasing them into the sea during his mountaintop fast.