{"id":153437,"date":"2022-12-22T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/glass-act-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-frog-transparency"},"modified":"2022-12-22T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T23:23:26","slug":"glass-act-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-frog-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/glass-act-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-frog-transparency","title":{"rendered":"Glass act: Scientists reveal secrets of frog transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glass-act-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-frog-transparency.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Now you see them, now you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abl6620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"\">Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, these nocturnal frogs sleep by hanging underneath tree leaves. Their delicate, greenish transparent forms don\u2019t cast shadows, rendering them almost invisible to birds and other predators passing overhead or underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Now you see them, now you don\u2019t. 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 Science. During the day, these nocturnal frogs sleep by hanging underneath tree leaves. Their delicate, greenish transparent forms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}