Look again. Leafy sea dragons are some of the best-camouflaged creatures on the planet. ... The eggs are fertilized during the transfer from the female to the male.

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a ... A leafy sea dragon floated along at the Birch Aquarium of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at U ...

Sea dragons are covered in leafy appendages that are designed to make them look like drifting seaweed. ... For a sea dragon, the eggs are deposited by the female on a patch near the tail.

The New England Aquarium is raising 18 baby sea dragons after a successful and rare breeding event. The baby dragons, who look too much alike to have names, will go on display this summer.

It also is trying to breed leafy sea dragons. The Birch Aquarium's 18-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) tank has three leafy sea dragons — two males and one female — and 11 weedy sea dragons.

Birch Aquarium has built what is believed to be one of the world's largest habitats for the surreal sea dragons, whose native populations off Australia are threatened by pollution, warming oceans ...

LA JOLLA, San Diego County — At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the ...

Underwater videographer Jarrod Boord, 37, captured fascinating footage of a male sea dragon carrying it's young for the female while diving in Port Phillip bay in Melbourne, Australia.

The weedy sea dragon, also called the common sea dragon, inhabits the waters off south and east Australia. Compared to the leafy sea dragon, weedies have less flamboyant projections and are ...

LA JOLLA, California — At first glance, it looks like a branch of kelp, but then an eye moves among its leafy appendages, and ridges of tiny, translucent fins start to flutter, sending the ...

It also is trying to breed leafy sea dragons. The Birch Aquarium's 18-foot-long (5.5-meter-long) tank has three leafy sea dragons — two males and one female — and 11 weedy sea dragons.