The lizards’ eyes are pale yellow with dark specks. One of the specimens documented in the study had a broken tail. The lizard were found between 11 and 64 feet up the trees, ...

Experts estimate that about 200 earless monitor lizards—some sourced from the wild, others bred from wild-caught parents—were traded from 2013 to 2016, primarily in Japan, Europe, and the U.S.

The dunes sagebrush lizard lives in the same West Texas land that supports the state’s biggest oil and gas fields, and industry leaders say the new designation will hurt drilling and production.