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From the Vault: Creature with the Crystal Skin

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Importance of Translucency in Animals

The use of translucency or transparency in animals is somewhat rare on land it's actually more common in the water and there are some amazing examples in marine organisms. In all cases I guess it helps to be kind of small the smaller you are as an organism the easier it's going to be to have some sort of translucencies or transparency to your body that being said there are some very large jellies who take up a fair amount of space but this is why the chances of actually seeing something like one of Fritz Lieber's ghouls or say a translucent elephant are pretty slim. There are also just some really strange fish in the sea there are so many strange fish inthe sea

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