A northern Pacific rattlesnake curls into a defensive position in the tall grass of a pasture along a country road near Elkton in southwestern Oregon on July 5, 2024. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A rare photograph of the nocturnal clown tree frog captured in the Cloud Forest in Ecuado in the first decade of August 2024. (Photo by Guy Edwards/Animal News Agency)





Vipera ammodytes the nose horned venomous viper snake spotted in northern Greece trapped in an abandoned human made subterranean construction. It is considered the most dangerous species in Europe with a a high venom toxicity. Serres region, Greece on August 2024 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), listed as “Endangered” on the national Red List, is seen at Pozanti district in Adana, Turkiye on March 06, 2024. (Photo by Alaeddin Cogal/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A newly hatched green iguanas rest on foliage in a terrarium at the Chennai Snake Park in Chennai on June 7, 2022. (Photo by Arun Sankar/AFP Photo)





An olive ridley snake hunting a lizard in the Dominical Mountains, Costa Rica, 24 August 2023. The Osa Canton, located in the province of Puntarenas in southern Costa Rica, boasts a diverse range of wildlife, including humpback whales, birds, and amphibians. The local inhabitants strive to preserve this rich biodiversity and share it with the many tourists who visit the area annually. (Photo by Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA/EFE)





The buff striped keelback (Amphiesma stolatum) is a species of nonvenomous colubrid snake found across Asia. It is the sole species of the genus Amphiesma. It is a typically nonaggressive snake that feeds on frogs and toads. A buff striped keelback snake is sitting twisted rounder its body in the brick space at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on May 07, 2022. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A pit viper sits on a tree branch in a swamp at Pasir Ris park in Singapore on January 19, 2023. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





An Iguana is seen at the Simon Bolivar National Zoological Park and Botanical Garden in San Jose, Costa Rica, on April 27, 2024. A group of specialists monitor and check several species at the Simon Bolivar Zoological Park to find out if climate change and climatic phenomena are changing the habitat of birds and the forest. (Photo by Ezequiel Becerra/AFP Photo)





Green frogs are seen in a pond in Thanthirimale, Sri Lanka on March 19, 2023. (Photo by Pradeep Dambarage/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Two Indonesian White Tree Frogs, also known as Dumpy Tree Frogs, sitting on a tree log in West Sumatra, Indonesia in the last decade of July 2024. This species of frog can change its colour based on temperature, mood and time of day. (Photo by Yan Hidayat/Media Drum Images)





A tree frog uses a leaf as an umbrella in pouring rain in Karacabey floodplain near the city of Bursa, Turkey in the first decade of June 2023. (Photo by Savas Sener/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A marbled poison frog (Epipedobates boulengeri) carries froglets on its back in Gorgona Island, where an infamous prison used to work, in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern Colombian coast, on November 30, 2021. Colombia's former island prison of Gorgona, that could be compared to the sinister Alcatraz in the United States or Robben Island in South Africa, is a humid mass of volcanoes and jungle. Today, this natural jewel is a national natural park of black gravel, colourful reefs, thick jungle and exuberant fauna where tourists arrive to visit the park and dive. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP Photo)





Frogs mate in a small pool at the RSPB Loch Garten Nature Reserve, on March 23, 2022, in Aviemore, Scotland. (Photo by Ken Jack/Getty Images)





This picture taken on August 13, 2024 shows a green and golden frog, an endangered specie, hiding between bricks inside a sauna at the research center of Macquarie University in Sydney. Hundreds of endangered Green and Golden Bell frogs huddle inside a sauna, protected from Sydney's winter chill. The sauna – a small greenhouse containing black-painted bricks – may offer a pleasant warmth, but it is also protecting the frogs from the deadly chytrid fungus that would otherwise drive them to extinction. (Photo by Saeed Khan/AFP Photo)