Call it the Harry Potter rule of evolutionary adaptation: “If you can put on an invisibility cloak, it’s a lot harder for predators to find you.” (From 2021)
While trekking through the Peruvian rain forest, an eight-hour boat ride from the nearest jungle settlement, biologist Aaron Pomerantz saw what seemed like tiny invisible jets zipping across the trail. “I was out there with a net trying to catch things,” he says, “and these just changed direction and vanished.”
that examines how clear wings develop. “If you can put on an invisibility cloak, it’s a lot harder for predators to find you. In ocean environments there are lots of transparent species, but on land it’s much less common.
The ocean, on the other hand, brims with see-through species, from jellyfish and sponges to crustaceans, cephalopods, and even fish. Earlier in summer 2021, two rare sightings of a glass octopus were made during an expedition, aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel, to the watery depths off the remote Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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