🐸 These Glass frogs have transparent stomachs.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZXQqaAMq_es

#wildlife #nature #frog #glassfrogs

🐸 These Frogs are TRANSPARENT! 🐸 #shorts

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Vitreorana assuh Zucchetti & Rojas-Padilla & Dias & Solé & Orrico & Castroviejo-Fisher 2023, sp. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank

Centrolene zarza Székely & Córdova-Díaz & Hualpa-Vega & Hualpa-Vega & Székely 2023, sp. nov. - Plazi TreatmentBank

This is one of my "isn't evolution amazing" posts. #evolution #glassfrogs #transparency #camofluage #wherestheblood #itshidingintheliver
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/glassfrogs-hide-red-blood-cells-their-liver-become-transparent#:~:text=Glassfrogs%20make%20themselves%20transparent%20while,23%20in%20the%20journal%20Science
"Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers...“When glassfrogs are resting, their muscles and skin become transparent, and their bones, eyes and internal organs are all that’s visible,”
Glassfrogs Hide Red Blood Cells in Their Liver to Become Transparent

Researchers finally decipher how a species of frog becomes a master of camouflage with the help of modern biomedical imaging techniques

Duke Pratt School of Engineering

I want to learn this trick. :)

Scientists have figured out how glass frogs make themselves nearly invisible when they sleep.

https://www.limfic.com/2023/01/26/writer-fuel-how-to-make-yourself-invisible-if-youre-a-frog/

#Biology #WriterFuel #Invisibility #GlassFrogs #HowCoolIsThis? #IFuckingLoveScience

Writer Fuel: How to Make Yourself Invisible (If You’re a Frog)

When a glassfrog falls asleep, it vanishes. Nestled atop a lush leaf, the frog's bright green back blends right in, while its underbelly's reddish hue quickly grows transparent. Now, a new study in the journal Science (opens in new tab) reveals that the northern glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) pulls off this feat by removing almost 90%...

Liminal Fiction
The astonishing vanishing act of the glassfrog, revealed

A kind of transparent frog achieves near invisibility by hiding its red blood cells during the day, scientists found. "I had never seen anything like that," researcher Carlos Taboada says.

NPR
The astonishing vanishing act of the glassfrog, revealed

A kind of transparent frog achieves near invisibility by hiding its red blood cells during the day, scientists found. "I had never seen anything like that," researcher Carlos Taboada says.

NPR

Scientists find secrets how the glass frog turn transparent while sleeping may hold clues for understandingblood clotting in humans.
#glassfrog #glassfrogs #science #environment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64069630

Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent

Scientists discover the glass frog's "superpower" in its ability to pool blood to turn see-through.

BBC News