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The flatback sea turtle, aka Australian flatback sea turtle, is the only sea turtle listed as Data Deficient by the IUCN. These turtles hail from northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments; over-collection […]

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The burrunan dolphin is in a state of flux, as it toggles between being its own species and a subspecies. The Society for Marine Mammalogy and the American Society of Mammalogists both cite issues with the methodology in which they were originally described in 2011, and feel more research is […]

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