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 ...

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 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 ...

The tiny dunes sagebrush lizard may blend in with the mounds of sand peppering the oil-rich Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, but its recently approved status as an endangered species has ...

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