These extraordinary rainforest species, each differently adapted to their environment, are rarely observed due to their ...

through their skin—a feature that makes them truly unique in the animal kingdom. Their see-through skin helps glass frogs blend into their surroundings, providing natural camouflage against ...

When glass frogs emerge during the rainy season, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute follow their migration out of the forest and along streams. These transparent leaf-lying ...

Glass Frogs of tropical America are known for their ... They remind us that the animal world is full of incredible and fascinating surprises. How are frogs important to the ecosystem?

The eerie site, which served a community for over a century, now appears frozen in time from the moment it was deserted - ...

"Transparency is super rare in nature, and in land animals, it's essentially unheard of outside of the glass frog," White said. Those that are transparent include some fish, shrimp, jellyfish ...

Head to downtown Cincinnati's riverfront and be greeted by a hoppin' guest.Heart of Glass will illuminate a larger than life inflatable soft sculpture of a Reticulated Glass Frog.The installation ...

"This species," he says, his face distorted through the glass ... choked stream's animals, media attention there could help future land preservation efforts. Why care about frogs?

But we spend so much time being amazed by fictional superheroes, worlds of the future and anything fantasy that we ignore the real but astonishing things in the animal kingdom ... Amazing superpower: ...

On a local level, heavy metal and chemical pollution from unmaintained factories and infrastructure will exert pressures on ...

a red-eyed tree frog, a domestic goat, a western lowland gorilla, and a human This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. “If you ask people what animal eyes ...

Borneo is home to more gliding animals than any other region ... It waits for insects, small rodents, and other frogs to ...