Transparent Frog | Crystal Frod | See Through Frog | Glass Frog

Glass Frog Crystal Frog/Transparent Frog – Glass frog is making headlines for its uniqueness.The transparent frog was discovered in Ecuador in 2009,it is an amphibian from the Centrolenidae family. The animal is often a transparent lime green making its heart, liver, and digestive visible through his skin.
The see through frog is very little ranging from 3 centimeters (1.2 in) to 7.5 centimeters (3.0 in) in length and can be found Mexico , Panama,Venezuela and Bolivia.

Professor Masayuki Sumida, who led the project at the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Hiroshima University, said scientists could look at the effect of drugs and chemicals on the frog's internal organs and blood vessels without the animals having to be killed and dissected.

'Because the frogs remain transparent from their birth to adulthood, organs of the same frog could be studied throughout,' he said. 'This is simple and cheap when studying, for instance, how certain chemicals influence bones.'

By attaching green fluorescent markers to a stretch of DNA and injecting it into the frog, researchers can also study the behaviour of genes in a living organism.