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The golden coin turtle, aka Chinese three-banded box turtle or the Chinese three-striped box turtle, hails from Hainan. These turtles face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, both marine and freshwater aquaculture; hunting; trapping; over-harvesting; and invasive species, that can bring […]

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This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The Wyoming toad, aka Baxter’s toad, is a toad species from the family Bufonidae. These critters are extremely rare and only exist in captivity within Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming in the United States. They were listed as an endangered species in 1984, and just 7 years later […]

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