Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons are closely related to seahorses and pipefish. Leafies are generally brown to yellow in body color with spectacular olive ...

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch. They come in two groups of species, leafy and weedy. “Leafies” have elaborate branching ...

But up close, delicate, rare leafy sea dragons are exposed for what they are: long-snouted cousins of seahorses that hide among the weeds they resemble. The Apple Valley zoo placed two species of ...

Leafy sea dragons, foot-long fish with flowy and fernlike fronds, typically lead what appears to be a very chill existence. In their native Australian waters, they float with the current ...

sea dragon and the ruby sea dragon. There is also one further species in the Phycodurus genus, the leafy sea dragon. Seahorses also belong to the Syngnathidae, alongside pipefish and sea dragons.

The Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego hopes the exhibit, which opened this month, will lead to the leafy sea dragon, the lesser ...

Sea dragons, which are primarily of the leafy or weedy varieties, are not currently threatened, but the Australian government has strict regulations that allow only a limited number of them to be ...

It was just everywhere." Esperance resident Karen Milligan has been diving the leafy sea dragon hotspot, at the western side of Lucky Bay near the campground, for about 18 years. She agreed it had ...