A transparent zebrafish will allow scientists to study the spread of cancer and other biological phenomena. Image courtesy of Richard White Zebrafish embryos are a staple of developmental biology: the ...

By Liz Kimbrough A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, ...

Zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and good models for human diseases. Now, researchers have bred a zebrafish that is transparent throughout its life, allowing researchers to directly view ...

Scientists have spotted a rare, see-through fish and a giant sea spider in waters off of Alaska. The transparent fish is known as a blotched snailfish and its technical name is Crystallichthys ...

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, ...

A tiny fish may show how stem cells change into organs, tissues. June 3, 2010 — -- Scientists are a step closer to unraveling one of the greatest mysteries of the biological world: how stem cells ...

This spring, White and his colleagues announced that they had bred a new, see-through, zebrafish. The animals’ transparent skin gives scientists a clear view of developmental processes, such as tumor ...

BEAUTIFUL BARRELEYE: The wee wonder is described by the Cannery Row institution as "incredibly elusive," a fish that " lives in the ocean's twilight zone, at depths of 2,000 to 2,600 feet." The ...

It lives in underwater caves thousands of feet beneath San Antonio, Texas, has no eyes and transparent skin. The Widemouth Blindcat - also called the Satan fish - has baffled experts for decades, and ...

One of the big, unsolved mysteries in science is exactly why humans and other animals sleep. There are plenty of hypotheses: it’s believed sleep is important in letting our organs repair themselves ...

Deep beneath the sea off the coast of California, there is a species of eel-like fish with a huge head, bulging eyes and a mouth full of transparent, fang-like teeth. Aristostomias scintillans is a 15 ...

(Feb. 7, 2008) — Zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are good models for human biology and disease. Now, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have created a zebrafish that is ...