ANIMAL CURIOSITIES
Transparent animals that look fake
Transparent animals are a fascinating and unique group of creatures that have evolved to blend in with their surroundings or avoid predators. These animals have clear or translucent bodies, which allow us to see their internal organs and skeletal structure.
These amazing, sometimes invisible organisms resemble real-world ghosts. The absence of pigmentation helps these creatures hide, so they cannot be found by predators. In addition, transparency saves valuable resources.
Here is a list of eight breathtakingly beautiful transparent animals.
By David Tiller - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4762150
Transparent animals that look fake
Transparent animals are a fascinating and unique group of creatures that have evolved to blend in with their surroundings or avoid predators. These animals have clear or translucent bodies, which allow us to see their internal organs and skeletal structure. These amazing, sometimes invisible organisms resemble real-world ghosts. The absence of pigmentation helps these creatures hide, so they cannot be found by predators. In addition, transparency saves valuable resources. Here is a list of eight breathtakingly beautiful transparent animals.
By Guayasamin JM, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Maynard RJ, Lynch RL, Culebras J, Hamilton PS - https://zooke
Rio Azuela glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum)
The Rio Azuela glass frog is a small translucent frog found in Central and South America. Its transparent skin allows you to see its internal organs, including the heart, liver and intestines.
By Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife - 23_salpchain_frierson_odfw, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://comm
Dreamfish (Salpas)
Dreamfish are almost completely transparent animals, in whose body only the intestines are assigned. Sometimes they are solitary creatures that join together, creating beautiful clusters.
By NOAA Okeanos Explorer - http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/10index/logs/slideshow
Deep sea cucumber (Enypniastes)
Deep sea cucumbers are ancient, slow-moving sea creatures that have lived for hundreds of millions of years. These animals live in the depths of the ocean where sunlight does not penetrate.
By Edie Widder - NOAA photo library, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=
Squid Kind Cranchiidae
Squid Kind Cranchiidae exists in about 60 species and is known as the glass squid. On the outside it resembles a glass bottle with a colored part: a cigar-shaped liver. In most cases they are not visible, but during the breeding season they join their luminous organs, the photophores.
By Eddy Van 3000 from in Flanders fields - Belgiquistan - United Tribes ov Europe - the wings-become
The Glasswinged Butterfly (Greta oto)
It is known by the common name of glasswinged butterfly because of its transparent wings, which allow it to camouflage itself without extensive colouration. In its transparent wings, whose pendulum is about 5-6 cm, there are no coloured scales that give colour to other butterflies.
By Fred Hsu (Wikipedia:User:Fredhsu on en.wikipedia) - Photo taken and uploaded by user, CC BY-SA 3.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish are probably the most famous transparent animals in nature. The body of a jellyfish is composed of 98 per cent water. Although not all jellyfish are stinging, some cubomedusae such as Chironex fleckeri are particularly dangerous to humans and in some cases can even cause death by anaphylactic shock. (source: wikipedia)
Di Kim Reisenbichler - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Video-frame-grab-of-Macropinna-microstoma
Macropinna microstoma
In this species of fish there is a colourless hemispherical capsule that covers and protects the eyes and may give the impression that the head is transparent: the two indentations at the anterior extremity of the head are actually not eyes but olfactory organs. The eyes can be rotated forwards. It possesses an adipose fin on the caudal peduncle. Adults are dark in colour. The maximum length is 15 cm. (source: wikipedia)
Di Matt Wilson/Jay Clark, NOAA NMFS AFSC - NOAA Photo Library, Pubblico dominio, https://commons.wik
Sea angels (Clione limacina)
Sea angels are hermaphrodite molluscs living in the Arctic Ocean, whose scientific name gymnosomata means 'naked body' in Greek. They are called this because they appear to float in the water with the help of small, transparent wings.
Animal Curiosities
21/06/2024
The world is beautiful because it is diverse, is a phrase we have heard a thousand times, and this is true not only for human beings, but also for animals.
On our planet, the variety of fauna is far greater than that of human beings, who are basically almost all the same. On the other hand, in the most remote parts of the Earth, but not only there, there are absolutely unique species of animals, so much so that they even enter Guinness World Record. Birds, fish, mammals, so many characteristics that make them absolutely recognizable, and also very rare.
Animal lovers, keep us company and discover all the most bizarre beasts on the planet.