A Tasmanian woman has shared her incredible find on the sand at Bruny Island, mistaking an almost completely transparent fish for a piece of seaweed. “I was pretty surprised to see a little eye on it, ...

They could be the tiniest heroes in the war against cancer. Transparent fish with human-like genes are allowing scientists to solve the mystery of how cancer grows and spreads. Tanks at Harvard ...

Discover 15 unbelievable transparent animals that actually exist on Earth. See nature's most ghostly and rare creatures.

Scientists at Duke Medicine are using transparent fish to watch in real time as Cryptococcal meningitis takes over the brain. The resulting images are worthy of a sci-fi movie teaser, but could be ...

Ice particles from Saturn’s rings are falling into the planet’s atmosphere. In part because the particles vaporize, energy is released, heating up and making the sky glow at ultraviolet wavelengths, ...

A fish biologist and her team spotted a see-through fish in Alaskan waters recently. It’s a rarely-seen blotched snailfish. "Been hoping to see one of these in person for a long time! Blotched ...

Researchers have developed powerful new techniques to see in unprecedented detail how blood-forming cells develop in zebrafish. The scientists have used this system to transplant blood cells with ...

We now know how ghost catfish get their rainbow shine. These small fish, popular for home aquariums because of their near-complete transparency, get their iridescence from fibres in their muscles, ...

Each year scientists document hundreds of fish species hidden under the surface of the planet’s rivers, lakes and wetlands. Last year scientists recorded 212 novel species of freshwater fish, ...