In the waters off southern and western Australia, there be dragons. For decades, scientists have known about two of them: the weedy and the leafy seadragon, fish covered in preposterous arrays of ...
The first live record of the ruby seadragon, Phyllopteryx dewysea, a species never before observed in the wild, is being published in the open access journal Marine Biodiversity Records this week.
This animation from scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego shows a third species of seadragon which was retrieved from the wild in 2007.
These rare seadragons were captured live on camera for the first time ever in the Recherche Archipelago in Western Australia. These rare seadragons were captured live on camera for the first time ever ...