Frogs at the United States National Arboretum in Washington, DC, on June 5, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Slim/AFP Photo)





This handout picture released by Edgar Lehr Press shows a Tachymenoides harrisonfordi snake at the Otishi National Park in Peru on May 22, 2022. In a jungle reserve in Peru, scientists discovered Harrison Ford sunbathing, a new species of snake named after the American actor and his environmental activism, the National University of San Marcos reported on Tuesday August 15, 2023. Tachymenoides harrisonfordi, the scientific name for the 40-centimeter reptile, was found basking “in puna montane grasslands of Otishi National Park, at an altitude of 3,248 meters”, the academic institution said. (Photo by Edgar Lehr Press/AFP Photo)





A yellow-eyed Ensatina, which is only found in the Bay area of California. It is a subspecies of the western salamander. (Photo by Anton Sorokin/Alamy Stock Photo)





In this Friday, October 18, 2019 photo, a Florida red-bellied turtle moves in to eat the flower of a lily pad in Everglades National Park, near Flamingo, Fla. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





A turtle stays underwater at the Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles Monday, August 17, 2020. A heatwave brought triple-digit temperatures and raised wildfire danger and fears of coronavirus spread, a significant concern in a state with more than 621,000 confirmed cases. Public health officers urged people to follow masks and social distancing orders if they head outdoors. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)





In this December 14, 2018, file photo, an African Bush Viper venomous snake is displayed for reporters at the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle. The World Health Organization is publishing its first-ever global strategy to tackle the problem of snake bites, announced on Thursday, May 23, 2019, aiming to halve the number of people killed or disabled by snakes by 2030. (Photo by Ted S. Warren/AP Photo/File)





A white-lipped pit viper snake is seen at a fire station in Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2019. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Two Red-eyed Tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) mate at “Exotic Fauna” breeding zoo, where exotic animals are reproduced to be marketed as pets in U.S., Canada and Asia, in Ticuantepe, on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua on July 17, 2022. (Photo by Maynor Valenzuela/Reuters)





A lizard drinks from a Hibiscus flower in Singapore on September 29, 2022. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)





An Oophaga lehmanni yellow stands inside a glass container at the “Tesoros de Colombia” frog breeding center in Cundinamarca, Colombia, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Iván Lozano, owner of the breeding center, now wants to start a program to repopulate some forests with frogs bred in his lab. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





An eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) in the red eft stage, at DuPont state recreational forest near Hendersonville, North Carolina, US in August 2020. (Photo by Steve Boice/Alamy Stock Photo)





Critically endangered Titicaca water frogs mate in their aquarium at the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, Tuesday, August 27, 2019. Prague Zoo together with a dozen other zoo's across Europe recently started to breed the endangered frogs to help create a back up population. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





View of a rainfrog (Pristimantis sp) in the Junin community, Imbabura province, Ecuador, on April 29, 2022. (Photo by Cristina Vega Rhor/AFP Photo)





An Oophaga lehmanni "Red" stands at the “Tesoros de Colombia” frog breeding center in Cundinamarca, Colombia, Monday, May 20, 2019. The species, that is poisonous in the wild but in captivity does not consume the food it needs to become toxic, is so rare that collectors refer to it as “the holy grail”. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





An Oophaga histrionica small red head stands at the “Tesoros de Colombia” frog breeding center in Cundinamarca, Colombia, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. When raised in captivity the histrionicas are no longer poisonous, because they have a different diet than wild specimens. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)