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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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The boreal toad is a subspecies of the western toad. These critters are found in northern New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Southeast Alaska. Boreal toads are threatened by habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, deforestation, mining, […]

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The smooth newt, aka common newt, European newt, or northern smooth newt, can be found throughout Europe and portions of western Asia. They have also been introduced to Australia. These adaptable newts can tolerate a range of habitats like standing water with numerous weeds for breeding, such as lake margins, […]

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The Darwin’s frog can only be found in Chile and Argentina. They prefer moist, moss covered ground; grasslands; rough wooded debris; and young trees and shrubs in mature native forests, near slower moving streams. These critters live at elevations of up to 3,600 feet. Sadly, due to habitat loss at […]

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The African clawed frog is native to South Africa, yet has since spread to various regions around the world and is considered an invasive species. These highly adaptable amphibians can survive everything from stagnant water, to ponds, to fast flowing streams, and most things in between. African clawed frogs are […]

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The glass frog or see-through frog is unique in that the skin on their abdomen is literally transparent. You can see their organs, including their beating heart and food moving through their digestive tract! There are 120 known species of glass frogs living in montane cloud forests of Central & […]

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Representing good fortune, the Panamanian golden frog from the rainforests of Central America is Panama’s national animal. Their picture is on everything from magazines, to posters, to T-shirts, to lottery tickets. Sadly though, these frogs have been faced with all kinds of adversity. Everything from being taken from the wild […]

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With it’s brilliant black and yellow stripes, the southern corroboree frog is very well known in Australia. They live in the sub-alpine bogs of the Snowy Mountains. They are found only at altitudes above 4,200+ feet in the Kosciusko National Park! This frog, like many others, have been decimated by […]

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