Fauna Threads🐸 These Glass frogs have transparent stomachs.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZXQqaAMq_es
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Plazi Species#NewSpecies!
New glassfrog from Brazil just climbed in on #FrogFriday!
Vitreorana assuh
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/435087F0-FFA7-FFA4-FF1E-B731B73F88BE
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.3.1
#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogs #glassfrogs #brazil
#NewSpecies!
New glassfrog from Ecuador just climbed in on #FrogFriday!
Centrolene zarza
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BE900409-8243-4494-8B40-FE76C52BC571
Publication: http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1149.96134
#ZooKeys_Journal
#FAIRdata
#science #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogs #glassfrogs #ecuador
Anne Fausto SterlingThis 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,”
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,”
Liminal FictionI 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%...
Road Not Taken#WhoKnew #vertebrates could make themselves #transparent?
If #people could do this and survive it, imagine what #spying would become
#InvisibleMan #scienceFiction
#frog #frogs #glassFrogs #redBloodCells
Kat Kimbriel
Anne Zanoni
FreedomLines, arrows, and lables, please.
#GlassFrogs
#Frogs
#AnimalianTransparency
#anatomy
#FrogAnatomy
#biology
#amphibians
FrogyUKScientists find secrets how the glass frog turn transparent while sleeping may hold clues for understandingblood clotting in humans.
#glassfrog #glassfrogs #science #environment
