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Top 10 Transparent Animals!
Here are the most interesting transparent animals, from
icefish to jellyfish to frogs to butterflies! Nature sure is very
interesting!
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Frog
Native to Venezuela, the Glass Frogs belong to the amphibian family
Centrolenidae (order Anura). While the general background coloration
of most glass frogs is primarily lime green, the abdominal skin of
some members of this family is transparent, so that the heart, liver,
and digestive tract are visible through their translucent skin. (Photo
by Heidi and Hans-Jurgen Koch)
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Head Fish
This bizarre deep-water fish called the Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma)
has a transparent head and tubular eyes. It has extremely light-sensitive
eyes that can rotate within his transparent, fluid-filled shield on its
head, while the fish's tubular eyes, well inside the head, are capped by
bright green lenses. The eyes point upward (as shown here) when the fish is
looking for food overhead. They point forward when the fish is feeding. The
two spots above the fish's mouth are not eyes: those are olfactory organs
called nares, which are analogous to human nostrils. (Photo by MBARI)
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Butterfly
Found in Central America, from Mexico to Panama, the Glasswing Butterfly
(Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its wings are transparent.
The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass. (Photo by
Hemmy)
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Squid
Found on the southern hemisphere's oceans, the Glass Squid (Teuthowenia
pellucida) has light organs on its eyes and possesses the ability to roll
into a ball, like an aquatic hedgehog. It is prey of many deep-sea fish (eg
goblin sharks) as well as whales and oceanic seabirds. (Photo by Peter
Batson)
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Zebrafish created by scientists
This see-through zebrafish was created in 2008 by scientists so they can
study disease processes, including the spread of cancer. The transparent
fish are allowing researchers at Children's Hospital Boston to directly
view fish's internal organs and observe processes such as tumor growth in
real-time in living organisms. (Photo by LS)
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Icefish
Fund in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America, the
crocodile icefish (Channichthyidae) feed on krill, copepods, and other
fish. Their blood is transparent because they have no hemoglobin and/or
only defunct erythrocytes. Their metabolism relies only on the oxygen
dissolved in the liquid blood, which is believed to be absorbed directly
through the skin from the water. This works because water can dissolve the
most oxygen when it is coldest. In five species, the gene for myoglobin in
the muscles has also vanished, leaving them with white instead of pink
hearts. (Photo by uwe kils)
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Amphipod
Called Phronima, this unusual animal is one of the many strange species
recently found on an expedition to a deep-sea mountain range in the North
Atlantic. In an ironic strategy for survival, this tiny shrimplike creature
shows everything it has, inside and out, in an attempt to disappear. Many
other small deep-sea creatures are transparent as well, or nearly so, to
better camouflage themselves in their murky surroundings, scientists say.
(Photo by David Shale)
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Larval Shrimp
Found in the in the waters around Hawaii, this transparent larval shrimp
piggybacks on an equally see-through jellyfish. (Photo by Chris
Newbert/Minden Pictures)
· Transparent Salp
This jellyfish-like animals known as Salps feed on small plants in the
water called phytoplankton (marine algae). They are transparent,
barrel-shaped animals that can range from one to 10cm in length. (Photo by
DM)
· Transparent Jellyfish
Jellyfish are free-swimming members of the phylum Cnidaria. They are found
in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea. Many jellies are so
transparent that they are almost impossible to see. The one above is from
the Arctapodema genus, with a size of an inch-long (2.5-centimeter-long).
(Photo by Bill Curtsinger)
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