The dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in the oil-rich Permian Basin, has been listed as endangered after a decades-long effort. (Ryan Hagerty/Usfws, Ryan Hagerty/Usfws) Subscribe to The Y’all — a ...

The dunes sagebrush lizard is a small creature — a little more than 2.5 inches from nose to butt. Its range is also small, roughly from Odessa to Roswell, N.M. This lizard resides in a small part, ...

After more than 40 years since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initially recognized the need for federal protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard, the agency has finally listed the tiny reptile ...

AUSTIN, Texas — If you’ve lived in Texas for a while, you may have run across a tiny lizard with an identity crisis. Most folks call them horned toads, but they are, indeed, horned lizards. A Texas ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the federal government over its decision to add the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in the state's biggest oil and gas region, to the endangered species ...

A Texas representative wants to remove a rare lizard from the endangered species list, which would pave the way for oil and gas companies to once again plant ground in restricted parts of the Permian ...

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ODESSA — The dunes sagebrush lizard burrows its coarse, spiny body as a way to cool down, and sometimes conserve heat, deep beneath the sand dunes in the Mescalero-Monahans ecosystem 30 miles west of ...

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