The weedy sea dragon, also called the common sea dragon, inhabits the waters off south and east Australia. Compared to the leafy sea dragon, weedies have less flamboyant projections and are ...

Weedy seadragons are not the only species with highly engaged fathers. Male seahorses, emperor penguins, silverback gorillas, ...

Brodt said, “it happened.” Last May, aquarium staff members discovered that a male weedy sea dragon was successfully carrying his mate’s eggs. The aquarium announced on Wednesday that the ...

For the first time, the Shedd Aquarium has successfully hatched over a dozen seadragon babies. They'll remain behind the ...

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 ...

Weedy seadragons have a unique reproductive process in which males, not females, carry the fertilized eggs on their tails.

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is setting the new standard for aquatic care as it nurtures four egg-carrying male weedy seadragons ...

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.

So just how rare are the Weedy Sea Dragons hatchlings at SeaWorld Orlando? Only six times worldwide have the sea dragons ever been known to hatch in captivity, according to SeaWorld. And it’s ...

The Newport Aquarium announced a new underwater scavenger hunt that, beginning Thursday, will introduce explorers to new inhabitants of the aquarium: weedy sea dragons and a rare albino catfish.

Say hello to the zoo's newest hatchlings! The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium successfully hatched 26 weedy sea dragon babies, according to a Facebook post from the zoo. It's the first such hatching in ...