Karen Lips, an amphibian ecologist and tropical biologist, is an associate professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She contributed this article to LiveScience's It was a dark and ...

“There! Found you,” exclaimed Silvery, propping himself comfortably on a high tree branch, beaming with delight over his new find. Perched on a leaf, obscuring itself into the leaves with his ...

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What if you had the power of invisibility, but it only works when you’re asleep? That might be useful for a surreptitious nap in public, but it still probably wouldn’t suit you as well as it does the ...

(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, ...

The see-through amphibians have an amazing strategy for hiding while asleep—one that could advance our understanding of blood clotting. The organs and developing eggs of a female glass frog, ...

Glass frogs are named for their translucent skin, which helps display their internal organs from underneath (you can even watch their hearts beat). Although there are more than 150 different glass ...

Karen Lips, an amphibian ecologist and tropical biologist, is an associate professor at the University of Maryland in College Park. She contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & ...