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AUSTIN - In 2012, a tiny lizard posed a big problem amid the pipelines and pump jacks in booming West Texas. There was talk within a federal agency about protecting the dunes sagebrush lizard as an ...

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Environmental groups are suing the Trump administration to secure federal protections for a reptile that makes its home among the shinnery oak sand dunes in West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. "And ...

Over the objections of the oil and gas industry, two environmental groups are asking the federal government to protect a tiny West Texas reptile amid the failure of a state-crafted plan to conserve it ...

(CN) — After a legal fight brought by environmental advocates, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday that it might be necessary to protect a tiny, rare species of oilfield-dwelling lizard ...

When danger looms, the tiny and spiky armadillo lizard curls its body into a ball and bites its own tail — on purpose!