A Hermann’s tortoise explores the ruins of Gorica castle in Berat, Albania on September 20, 2024. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Wagler’s pit viper eats its greens, gobbling down an unlucky grass lizard in Indonesia, September 2024. Although all pit vipers are venomous, this species is generally considered not to be aggressive. (Photo by Dzul Dzulfikri/Media Drum Images)





A small scale slithers on the hiking path, seen on a walk through the Bloedel Reserve, near Seattle, Washington, US on September 24, 2024. The Bloedel Reserve is a 150-acre forest garden on Bainbridge Island. It was created by Virginia and Prentice Bloedel, the vice-chairman of the lumber company MacMillan Bloedel Limited, under the influence of the conservation movement and Asian philosophy. (Photo by Bruce Chambers/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A common frog during sunny weather in a forest pond in the Czech Republic on August 28 2024. (Photo by Slavek Ruta/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A marine iguana pictured on Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador 08 February 2022 (Issued 01 March 2022). The marine reptile is endemic to the Galap​agos Islands and found only on these islands. (Photo by Daniela Brik/EPA/EFE)





An American bullfrog waits for a meal in a pond protecting the green on the thirteenth hole during a practice round for the 2022 PGA Championship golf tournament at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 17 May 2022. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/EPA/EFE)





This Indonesian pit viper took the photographer, Dzul Dzulfikri, by surprise as he walked in the Bina Bangsa forest near Jakarta in August 2023. The snakes grow up to 70cm long and spend all their lives in trees, hunting rodents, lizards and small birds. (Photo by Dzul Dzulfikr/Animal News Agency)





A very rare blue colored tree frog, which is normally known for its green color, holds onto a leaf in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye on June 28, 2024. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Handout picture released on December 30, 2021, by the National Service of Natural Protected Areas by the State (Sernanp) showing a new species of Pristimantis paulpittmani, a frog recently discovered in Peru. A scientific team found the new species of frog at a natural park in the Peruvian Amazon, the Sernanp reported on December 30, 2021. (Photo by Quispe Salcedo/Sernanp/AFP Photo)





A Australian green tree frog wearing a small turtle as a hat, keeping its head dry during its swim in Padang West Sumatra, Indonesia in May 2023. The Australian green tree frog grows up to 11 centimetres tall, the males being smaller that the females. They can live to the age of 25 and their colour alters between green, brown and blue depending on their mood. (Photo by Yan Hidayat/Media Drum Images)





Mysticellus franki, a new species of narrow-mouthed frog, discovered in a puddle by “India’s frogman” Sathyabhama Das Biju in September 2021. India is becoming a frog paradise with dozens of new species discovered in recent years. (Photo by Dr S.D. Biju/The Guardian)





A little snake is seen near Hamam Lake, Europe's largest longoz forest consisting mainly of beech and oak trees, during autumn season in Kirklareli, Turkey on November 08, 2021. (Photo by Ozgun Tiran/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A tiny frog sits in the bottom of a hanging planter as it is watered during an extended heat wave in Harahan, La., Sunday, August 20, 2023. (Photo by Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)





A Lake Titicaca frog on display during a photo call for London Zoo's new “The Secret Life of Reptiles and Amphibians” experience on Monday March 25, 2024, as it opens to the public, in Regent's Park, London. (Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)





A bullfrog sits in what's left of a drying up pond from the heat in the country near Commerce, Texas, USA, 02 August 2018. Temperatures in Texas had reached over 30 degrees Celsius causing the pond to dry up. (Photo by Larry W. Smith/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)