Environmentalists sued the federal government in hopes of garnering stronger protections for the dunes sagebrush lizard – an animal reportedly threatened by ongoing oil and gas development in ...

A lizard species native to southeast New Mexico was the subject of a lawsuit filed last week against the federal government which the plaintiffs contended failed to protect the animal from extinction.

A lizard native to southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin was afforded the highest level of federal protections aimed at preventing its extinction, triggering concerns that landowners and industries in ...

The dunes sagebrush lizard in West Texas Flickr/Mark Watson In 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) made the controversial decision not to list the dunes sagebrush lizard, a three-inch ...

We see lizards almost every day– on walls, near lights, or hiding in corners. Most of the time, we don’t even pay attention ...

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Diploderma bifluviale, a tiny new species of mountain lizard, was discovered in the valleys of the upper Dadu River Basin in ...

Dubbed the 'Jesus lizard,' the basilisk lizard of Central and South America possesses an astonishing ability to run across ...

This is a Dunes Sagebrush lizard. The Trump administration wants to put greater weight on the economic benefits of development when deciding if land or water should be protected for imperiled species.