8 Animals That You Can Literally See Right Through
Animals can come in an array of vivid colors. Their colors can span the hues of the rainbow, or include a plethora of prints, or make up an amazing camouflage. There are even some animals that are nearly see-through. This unique coloring — or lack of color — can make these creatures both beautiful to observe and naturally obscured from predators. Here are eight such transparent animals you can see right through. Check them out, though you may have to look close.
8. Glass Octopus
7. Sea Salp
A sea salp is a small, transparent jelly-like organism that feeds on phytoplankton. It begins its life as a solitary creature, reproducing asexually and forming a “chain” with the other individual salps. The chain can grow to become hundreds of salps that are linked together. They swim and feed while attached to each other until they mature and break apart.
6. Glass Squid
5. Sea Angel
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