A glass frog's translucent skin and legs allows it to blend in with its leafy surroundings in an unusual form of camouflage dubbed 'edge diffusion'. Scientists observed changes in brightness in the ...

Some ocean animals have a clever form of camouflage—they’re transparent. But being see-through is far less common on land. “And there’s a few reasons why that may be.” Jim Barnett is a postdoctoral ...

Alongside a pristine stream in the foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes, a team of researchers has found a graceful glass frog that's new to science. Unlike its close relatives, this amphibian has ...

(WTNH) – A newly discovered frog has gone viral, not only because it looks like Kermit, but also because you can see its organs through its translucent skin. According to the Costa Rican Amphibian ...

Camouflage takes many forms in the natural world. Some animals are born with skin or coats that blend in naturally with their environment. Some Old World lizards like the chameleon have an almost ...

There is a kind of army camouflage pattern called “frog skin” which looks like the mottled green, brown and tan colours of a common frog. Army battledress camouflage works in the same way that frog ...

A frog that turns to a mostly translucent state when sleeping could hold the key to understanding human blood coagulation. Although the glass frog has long been recognised by science, its method of ...

Scientists at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires made the discovery by accident while studying the pigment of polka-dot tree frogs, a species common to the rainforest. In ...

A new species of frog distinguished by its “translucent groin” was discovered in a remote section of Amazonas, Brazil, researchers said. Photo from the journal PeerJ While surveying a remote region of ...

A translucent frog sleeps on a green leaf, looking almost like an X-ray. This week, the cover of Science features the glass frog, which can make its skin transparent, leaving its internal organs ...

A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.