This article was originally featured on High Country News. The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America.

Federal authorities have unveiled the establishment of two recently inaugurated national wildlife refuges in Wyoming and Tennessee, serving as critical sanctuaries for endangered and threatened ...

Wyoming toads are rare and, in the wild, live only in a wildlife refuge west of Laramie. Scientists thought them to be extinct in the wild just a couple of decades ago. But an effort that the Cheyenne ...

Como Park Zoo released its most critically endangered amphibian -- the Wyoming toad -- back into the wild Thursday. In an effort to preserve the rare toad, the St. Paul zoo placed more than 1,300 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday announced the establishment of the Wyoming Toad Conservation Area in Wyoming as the 569th unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) posted that in early June, a group of volunteers and conservation experts gathered to release hundreds of Wyoming toads back into their native ...

Researchers at the Memphis Zoo have joined forces with other zoos in trying to reintroduce the endangered Wyoming toad back into the wild. JACKSON - If Albany County residents happen upon a toad in ...

Wyoming toads — one of the most endangered amphibians in North America — are slowly making a comeback thanks to the work of conservation groups. Those efforts leaped forward when the Hutton Lake ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two newly created national wildlife refuges in Tennessee and Wyoming will help protect habitats for threatened and endangered species such as toads, bats, shrimp and salamanders, ...

The Wyoming toad, which evolved to live in a small slice of southeastern Wyoming, is one of the most endangered amphibians in North America. But now, at least, it will have more room to recover: On ...