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According to recent findings, glass frogs, which are famed for their remarkably transparent muscles and undersides, carry out their "disappearing actions" by stashing almost all of their red blood cells in their distinctively reflective livers.
The study conducted by researchers at Duke University and the American Museum of Natural History is being published in Science on Friday. The study may open up new directions in the breakdown of blood clots, which frogs manage to avoid by storing and releasing around 90 per cent of their red blood cells into their livers on a regular basis. "There are more than 150 species of known glass frogs in the world, and yet we're really just starting to learn about some of the really incredible ways they interact with their environment," said co-lead author Jesse Delia, a Gerstner postdoctoral fellow in the Museum's Department of Herpetology.
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