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 ...

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, ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that his office is suing the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Biden administration officials for declaring a ...

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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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 ...

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