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 ...

Glass frogs have the rare ability to turn on and off their nearly transparent appearance, researchers report Thursday in the journal Science. Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images Now you see them, now you ...

It’s tough being a frog. You have to account for opposing lanes of traffic across a busy highway and, if you get through that, you have to hop across logs and the backs of turtles, avoiding alligators ...

Now you see them, now you don’t. Some frogs found in South and Central America have the rare ability to turn on and off their nearly transparent appearance, researchers report Thursday in the journal ...

Frogs are one of the most diverse animal groups, with a wide range of sizes and colors. Scientists have identified up to 5,000 frog species and believe there are many more waiting to be discovered.

(CN) — If you’re ever in the rain forests of Colombia, don’t expect to see any glass frogs hanging out; the tiny frogs are masters of camouflage, thanks to their transparent skin. The glass frog, ...

A kind of transparent frog achieves near invisibility by hiding its red blood cells during the day, scientists found. "I had never seen anything... The astonishing vanishing act of the glassfrog, ...

Masayuki Sumida and his team at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology have developed a transparent frog. They say that being able to see past the skin can aid them in disease studies ...

Jesse Delia says it happened in Panama. A few years back, he was finishing up his field work — a research project examining the parental behavior of a type of glassfrog. He brought a handful of these ...