The risk of the Leafy Sea Dragon being captured in fishing nets is very probable. There is too much money to be made in the world of commercial capture for them to be left alone.

While the sea dragons were missing these growth genes, their genomes were packed with repetitive sections of code called transposons. This sort of repetitive code throughout the genome was once ...

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 ...

Sea dragons are covered in leafy appendages that are designed to make them look like drifting seaweed. Additionally, sea dragons are usually more colorful than seahorses, although that isn’t ...

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 washed up on a Perth beach nearly a hundred years ago and had been stashed away in Western Australia Museum’s collection from 1919 until recently, when scientists at Scripps Institute of ...

Some of SeaWorld Orlando's most innovative science is happening inside its most popular thrill ride: the first successful hatching in captivity of weedy sea dragons, rare relatives of sea horses.

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 ...