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A Mexican fire leg tarantula (Brachypelma boehlmi) along with the sheddings of other tarantulas at Verve Biotech, a biotechnology company in Waverly, Nebraska.

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A pile of scorpion molts collected at Verve Biotech, a biotechnology company in Waverly, Nebraska.

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A fruit bat (Lissonycteris angolensis) hanging with wings folded, from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A North American beaver (Castor canadensis) tail at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Possibly a baby robin, from the home of wildlife rescuer in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Possibly a baby robin, from the home of wildlife rescuer in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) on Espanola Island in Galapagos National Park.

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A Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at Santiago Island in Galapagos National Park.

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Two young boys pretending to smoke gum cigarrettes at their home in Lincoln, NE.

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A studio portrait of an eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis.

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A studio portrait of an eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis.

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Bush meat shoppers pay to have the fur singed off a drill monkey in Malabo on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea.

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A beaver (Castor canadensis) tail at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.

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A beaver (Castor canadensis) tail at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.

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A small-mouthed salamander (Ambystoma texanum) from a private collection.

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A vulnerable stout salamander (Pachyhynobius shangchengensis).

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A vulnerable (IUCN) and federally endangered Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum).

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A pallid spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera pallida) at the Houston Zoo.

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Caiman lizard (Dracaena guianensis). This is a semi-aquatic freshwater species from the Amazon Basin in South America. The long toes are for getting in and out of the muddy banks of the rivers where it lives.

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Caiman lizard (Dracaena guianensis). This is a semi-aquatic freshwater species from the Amazon Basin in South America.

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A eastern river cooter (Pseudemys concinna concinna) at the Tennessee Aquarium.

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An endangered Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at the Buffalo Zoo.

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A leopard gecko (Eublpharis macularis) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, Lincoln, Nebraska.

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A critically endangered Amargosa toad (Anaxyrus nelsoni) in Beatty, Nevada.

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The tail of a Koch’s giant day gecko (Phelsuma madagascariensis kochi) from a private collection.

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A Bioko leaf-tailed gecko (Hemidactylus biokoensis) from Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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