Have You Seen These 10 Amazing Transparent Animals

This world is full of creatures of all kinds of colors and patterns, and such conspicuous colors make their beauty inescapable to us. But, some of them are different. They choose to hide in plain sight. Are they too shy, or do they just want to be stealthy? Let’s know a little more about the different types of ghostly, glassy, transparent animals that are lurking around us.

Ghost Shrimp

Ghost Shrimp

Also known as the Glass Shrimp, this translucent crustacean is a popular pet. Its natural habitat is in the brackish water of wetlands, where it is a skilled scavenger.

Barreleye Fish

Barreleye Fish

This intriguing fish has barrel-shaped tubular eyes that are extremely light-sensitive eyes and are directed upwards to detect the silhouette of prey.

Glass Frog

Glass Frog

This amazing amphibian has a transparent under-belly allowing you to see a fully visible system of organs. These nocturnal creatures are tiny — a mere 2–8 centimetres — and live in the canopies of Central and South American rain forests. When they sit still, they’re extremely difficult to spot from a distance.

Crocodile Icefish

Crocodile Icefish

This ghostly Antarctic fish has colourless blood — it’s the only known vertebrate without red blood cells and hemoglobin.

Sea Salp

Sea Salp

These tiny barrel-shaped organisms move through the water by pumping water through their gelatinous bodies, munching on phytoplankton as they go. Salps are known for their unique life cycle, during which they exist both as individuals (above) and part of a larger organism (below). Four-inch (10.2 centimeter) sea salps link together to make luminous chains up to fifteen feet (4.6 meters) long.

Glass Squid

Glass Squid

There are about 60 different species of glass squid that make up the Cranchiidae familiy. Many species are bioluminescent and possess light organs on the undersides of their eyes. They typically move vertically to reduce visibility, as their digestive glands can be seen through their transparent skin.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are found in every ocean and have roamed the earth’s waters for at least 500 million years. There are many different kinds of jellyfish that are transparent or translucent. In addition to imparting a beauty and elegance few ocean creatures can rival, their see-through nature makes them dangerous to swimmers who might not see their stinging tentacles coming.

Phronima

Phronima

This deep-sea shrimp-like creature may be tiny (most never exceed 1 inch in length) but it makes up for it in extreme ferocity. Phronima females attack salps, eating them from the inside, and then lay their eggs inside the dead bodies. You wouldn’t want to mess with these little critters.

Sea Angel

Sea Angel

These ethereal, otherworldly, translucent sea slugs hover through the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. If they look familiar it might be because they are the real-world inspiration behind the Pokemon characters Phione and Manaphy.

Glass Catfish

Glass Catfish

The Asian glass catfish is one of the most transparent vertebrates on the planet. Most of their organs are located near the head and with a magnifying glass their heart can be seen beating. When the light strikes the fish just right, it can create an iridescent rainbow color. They live in slow-moving streams throughout Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. After death, they turn a morbid milky white colour.