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 ...

The aquarium hopes the exhibit, which opened this month, will lead to the leafy sea dragon, the lesser-known cousin of the seahorse, being bred for the first time in captivity. "It literally just ...

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 ...

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