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.

A new Australian seadragon species was found right under scientists’ noses, in a museum collection THE FIRST NEW Australian seadragon species to be declared in 150 years was hiding out in Perth’s ...

Until now, only these two species had ever been described, the last of which was named 150 years ago. So it came as a bit of a delightful shock when I lately saw the news that a third species has ...

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.