Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Circumstances under which I’d never wear any clothes

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   davidnangle

   24 September 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   “Hey, I thought you said the kids ate the last of the Oreos?!”

   Busted yet again!

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   crocodoc

   24 September 2012 at 7:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   We do have transparent skin we just cannot see the right wavelengths

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   llewelly

   24 September 2012 at 8:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   … if said transparent skin were appropriately opaque to dangerous frequencies, such as UV , that would be wonderful.

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   birgerjohansson

   24 September 2012 at 8:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   You would get early warning about Alien parasites establishing themselves in your thorax.

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   blf

   24 September 2012 at 9:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Is that picture of poopyhead I or poopyhead II? I’m having problems keeping my poopyheads straight…

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   Marcus Ranum

   24 September 2012 at 9:28 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Upside: “Hey, what’s that black lump growing on your liver?”
   Downside: “I sunburned my kidneys again…”

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   chigau (違わない)

   24 September 2012 at 9:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’m having problems keeping my poopyheads straight…

   The mental pictures…

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   carbonbasedlifeform

   24 September 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It certainly would make anatomy study much easier.

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   Glen Davidson

   24 September 2012 at 10:06 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I’m for keeping the colon opaque.

   Glen Davidson

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    Randomfactor

    24 September 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I’m for keeping the colon opaque.

    No shit.

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    scottlesch

    24 September 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Not too good for “Sally Impossible” from The Venture Brothers.

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    woodsong

    24 September 2012 at 11:32 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    What a gorgeous little frog! I’d love a chance to see one (or several) of those someday.

    The internal iridescence is amazing and beautiful.

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    mjmiller

    24 September 2012 at 12:07 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Randomfactor For the Win!

    -Here’s your shiny new internet.

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    Sili

    24 September 2012 at 1:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    No. I’m selfconscious enough about my outsides as it is. I hate having to go to school with a spot on my nose. Having to go with a spot on my liver would just kill me.

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    A. R

    24 September 2012 at 1:31 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Want.

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    carpenterman

    24 September 2012 at 1:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    No way. I like women’s skin just the way it is.

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    Ace of Sevens

    24 September 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Are those eggs?

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    Owlmirror

    24 September 2012 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Yes, those are eggs.

    ObTetZoo:

      http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/11/09/green-boned-glass-frogs/

    I left a comment on that thread linking to the original of the above image, which is from National Geographic Visions of Earth. The caption for this image was:

    Photograph by Heidi and Hans-Jürgen Koch
    April 2008
    Germany—The see-through skin of an inch-long glass frog reveals her eggs. Native to Venezuela, the frogs lay eggs in bushes and trees overhanging streams. Tadpoles hatch, then tumble into the current to be swept away.

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    Tom J

    24 September 2012 at 5:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    No thanks! I’d hate to get a sunburn on my liver and all my insides.

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    Ogvorbis: broken and cynical

    24 September 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    On the bright side, it would make part of biology class much less traumatic. “No, professor. I will not dissect the frog. Instead, I will just point and say.”

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    Menyambal --- Sambal's Little Helper

    24 September 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Somehow, looking at that picture, it seems stunningly obvious that a frog evolved from a squishy, wet, semi-transparent, single-celled organism with protozoan pseudopods and all.

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    Vasha

    24 September 2012 at 7:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    The article is good too. Great that the reporter asked the scientist how he’d test his hypotheses.

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    Dhorvath, OM

    24 September 2012 at 8:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I would so sit and watch my dinner.

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    strange gods before me ॐ

    24 September 2012 at 8:27 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    more: http://google.com/images?q=glass+frog

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    culch

    25 September 2012 at 7:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Owlmirror,
    Thanks for the links. Pretty pictures are nice, but then I want to know some details of what I’m looking at.

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    pipenta

    25 September 2012 at 8:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Wouldn’t that make pregnancy even more interesting than it already is!

    I’d have a real problem getting used to people’s faces if we had transparent skin. I guess we’d all eventually get used to it, but in the meantime YUCK. It would be like living in one of those creepy old EC horror comic books.

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    didgen

    25 September 2012 at 5:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Could someone identify the white area that looks a little like styrofoam? Thanks, I read the article very informative thanks Owlmirror.

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    ivarhusa

    26 September 2012 at 9:22 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Ironically, perhaps, I would not have the ‘guts’ to go out in public… (Though provably otherwise.)