I would like to celebrate and to welcome to your consciousness the newly discovered glass frog, Hyalinobatrachium diane.

Light passes through its skin and reveals a treasure chest of organs. Topaz gallbladder. Ruby heart. A thin red thread for a central vein. The frog hops from broadleaf to broadleaf in the Costa Rican rainforest, revealing the whole of its insides only to the relative safety of dusk as it dodges snakes, eats spiders, and has thoughts. Like a complex friend, it exposes itself in order to make itself harder to see.

The tireless zoologists at the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Centre found this jewel-like creature, published their initial descriptions of it in Zootaxa, and named it after the lead author’s mother and the Roman goddess of woodland creatures.

And there’s hope that the swift scythes of the pineapple and coffee industries won’t immediately endanger this little amphibian's hoppin' ground. Costa Rica boasts one of the best reforestation programs in the world, raising forest levels from 35 percent in 1980 to 51.02 percent in 2010. Though illegal logging still threatens these lands, ecotourism and conservation efforts like those taken by the CRARC have reportedly helped to restore and maintain habitats necessary for these little guys to thrive.