A rare grasshopper shines bright against its leafy background in North Holland, Netherlands in the first decade of October 2024. The insects are usually brown or green but turn pink due to a genetic mutation. (Photo by Roeselien Raimond/Media Drum Images)

Combat between two male stag beetles, Italy, 2022. During the mating season, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) go into a frenzy, with lively but harmless clashes, in which bigger males often have the advantage over smaller ones due to their impressive mandibles. Longer larval development and genetic traits can increase the size of some individuals, but all saproxylic beetles are threatened by poor forest management, logging and dead wood removal to “clean” the forest. (Photo by Iacopo Nerozzi)

A Romanian honor guard soldier waits before the arrival of Moldovan President at Cotroceni Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, Romania, 23 November 2021. Maia Sandu is on a one-day official visit to Romania. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE)

Two brave contestants take part in the World Gravy Wrestling Championships at the Rose 'n Bowl in Stacksteads, Lancashire, England on August 27 2018. Contestants must wrestle in the gravy for 2 minutes, points are scored for fancy dress, comedy effect, entertainment and wrestling ability. The event is held to raise funds for the East Lancashire Hospice and competitors nominated charities. (Photo by The Mercury Press)

Portrait category, bronze award winner. Purple-crested Turaco Gallirex porphyreolophus. Lower Mpushini, near Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (Photo by Richard Flack/Bird Photographer of the Year 2022)

In this Friday, February 27, 2015 photo, an Israeli high-school senior preparing to join the Israeli military later this year participates in a privately run training camp for military combat fitness near Yakum, central Israel. With a mandatory three-year military service looming after graduation, teenage boys, and increasingly girls too, are gearing up for the draft, getting into shape and trying to improve their chances of acceptance into elite combat units. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)

Palestinian man Mohammed al-Hoor, 23, demonstrates his street workout skills in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip on May 2, 2017. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

A girl in an angel costume walks with her family past vegetable vendors in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)