Terrapins are a threatened species in many areas, due to pollution primarily. That's why most of Senators pictures are of box turtles, sea turtles, anything but Diamondback Terrapins.
But Mountaineers are completely extinct. They were simply unable to compete with modern technologies or industry, and generally lost the evolutionary race. However, their descendents can be found throughout West Virginia or wherever they have scattered. Here are a couple of the survivors:
