Junjie Yao via SWNS Because they have transparent skin and other tissues, it’s the blood circulating through their bodies that would otherwise give them away. The frogs also shrink and pack ...

Why isn’t your body transparent? Some animals such as jellyfish ... When we added it to the mouse’s scalp, we could see the ...

so they achieve camouflage by becoming super transparent. (Their livers, among other organs, are coated in highly reflective white crystals.) Since their red blood cells are transporting very ...

Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation ... especially when paired with the state-of-the-art photoacoustic imaging. As long-time glassfrog ...

A frog that turns itself mostly transparent while sleeping may hold clues for understanding blood clotting in humans. Scientists have long known about the glass frog but did not understand how it ...

"If you really want to be transparent, you need to hide your red blood cells," study co-author Sönke Johnsen, a professor of biology at Duke University in North Carolina, told Live Science.

When tiny glass frogs turn in for the night, they're able to become transparent by hiding almost 90 percent of their red blood cells. The colorful areas are tucked away inside the frog's liver ...