Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem
like the most pointed of anachronisms.
What's more, the same team discovered three additional new species of these distinctive, snake -
like lizards that are also living in some inhospitable - sounding places for wildlife: at a vacant lot in downtown Bakersfield, among
oil derricks in the lower San Joaquin Valley and on the margins of the Mojave desert.»