Frogs are good boys, toads too

photographs by Raby Núñez

He can’t be stopped

This is an ancient Egyptian gold ring with a carved jasper frog, dating from 600–30 BC.

photograph by Alex Popovkin

photograph by Diep Dai Tung

photographs by Nuqui herping

photographs by Koh Ke Han

photograph by Hawken Carlton

I get that it sounds like a joke but there was an actual man in my backyard hunting for wet toads last night and I am being fully honest

@markscherz

the act of searching—often largely without success but nevertheless with enthusiasm—for amphibians and reptiles (‘herps’).

Froggy Boba

frog figurines by CreationsbyChrisNoel

Today I caught one of the largest frogs of my life. This gigantic Pelophylax ridibundus belongs to a Balkan lineage (formerly P. kurtmuelleri) that has an established introduced population in one lake in central Copenhagen. They are about twice the size of our native green frogs!