Not too good for “Sally Impossible” from The Venture Brothers.
woodsongsays
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.
mjmillersays
Randomfactor For the Win!
-Here’s your shiny new internet.
Silisays
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.
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.
No thanks! I’d hate to get a sunburn on my liver and all my insides.
Ogvorbis: broken and cynicalsays
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.”
Menyambal --- Sambal's Little Helpersays
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.
Owlmirror,
Thanks for the links. Pretty pictures are nice, but then I want to know some details of what I’m looking at.
pipentasays
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.
didgensays
Could someone identify the white area that looks a little like styrofoam? Thanks, I read the article very informative thanks Owlmirror.
“Hey, I thought you said the kids ate the last of the Oreos?!”
Busted yet again!
We do have transparent skin we just cannot see the right wavelengths
… if said transparent skin were appropriately opaque to dangerous frequencies, such as UV , that would be wonderful.
You would get early warning about Alien parasites establishing themselves in your thorax.
Is that picture of poopyhead I or poopyhead II? I’m having problems keeping my poopyheads straight…
Upside: “Hey, what’s that black lump growing on your liver?”
Downside: “I sunburned my kidneys again…”
The mental pictures…
It certainly would make anatomy study much easier.
I’m for keeping the colon opaque.
Glen Davidson
I’m for keeping the colon opaque.
No shit.
Not too good for “Sally Impossible” from The Venture Brothers.
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.
Randomfactor For the Win!
-Here’s your shiny new internet.
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.
Want.
No way. I like women’s skin just the way it is.
Are those eggs?
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:
No thanks! I’d hate to get a sunburn on my liver and all my insides.
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.”
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.
The article is good too. Great that the reporter asked the scientist how he’d test his hypotheses.
I would so sit and watch my dinner.
more: http://google.com/images?q=glass+frog
Owlmirror,
Thanks for the links. Pretty pictures are nice, but then I want to know some details of what I’m looking at.
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.
Could someone identify the white area that looks a little like styrofoam? Thanks, I read the article very informative thanks Owlmirror.
Ironically, perhaps, I would not have the ‘guts’ to go out in public… (Though provably otherwise.)