A DRAGON SIGHTING IN CALIFORNIA: Encountering an enchanting animal while roaming the hills and coves of California would be quite thrilling, and, truth be told, it happens often: Hikers spy owls, ...
LA JOLLA, California (AP) — 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 ...
For the first time, UC San Diego’s Birch Aquarium has coaxed a female weedy sea dragon into transferring a large number of eggs to a male sea dragon who could give birth to a bounty of babies. On ...
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. By Remy ...
In the genomes of the bizarre fish that are related to sea horses, scientists found certain key growth genes were missing. By Kate Golembiewski Among the ocean’s menagerie of bizarre creatures, sea ...
For more than a decade, researchers at the New England Aquarium in Boston have been trying to breed some of the most elusive and enchanting fish under the sea. Lacy and delicate, sea dragons live only ...