Leafy Sea Dragon: Camouflaged with leaf-like appendages, ... Blue Dragon sea slug: A tiny sea slug with silvery-blue 'wings' and venomous stinging cells, resembling a miniature celestial dragon, ...

And then, “out of the blue,” Mr. Brodt said ... No one has ever seen a leafy sea dragon mate in the wild, said Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at Scripps who was not involved in the New ...

The mysterious blue sea dragon is a species of small sea slug that uses venom taken from Portugese man o' war (Physalia physalis) to kill their prey. Julian Obayd, the self-styled blue dragon ...

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 ...

Their masquerade is likely why they don’t have the same leaf-shaped camouflage appendages the leafy ... a sea slug specialist at California State Polytechnic University. The blue dragon sea ...

The blue sea dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) was recently spotted washing up on the Outer Banks. They're only about an inch wide and are interesting to look at, but rangers say that you should be ...

From leafy sea dragons to blue swimmer crabs, marine life off the coast of South Australia has been decimated by a toxic algae bloom.

BUXTON, N.C. — Officials from the Cape Hatteras National Seashore are raising awareness about the Glaucus atlanticus, or blue sea dragons, a species of venomous sea slugs, that are washing up on ...

The blue dragon feasts on venomous creatures including Portuguese men o'war (Physalia physalis), by-the-wind-sailors (Velella velella) and violet sea snails (Janthina janthina). The tiny creature ...