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I look at this animal and its pink coral cousin and really think that our current theories of evolution cannot explain their appearance. I don't go as far as intelligent design but just how do they so perfectly fit into their surroundings. Many other animals live in their habitate yet do not develop camouflage to such a degree. I could understand one frond, but how does it get so many, that all blend in with the plants? I cant see that this can be by natural selection alone. Does anyone know of any work done on their evolution?
I heard the leafy sea dragon was unknown until recently because, well, the camoflage was so great. When was it discovered by humans? Tempshill 17:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm interested which three "professional aquariums" have the leafy sea dragon as an exhibit. Also a source for this statement would be great. I know one of them is (or at least used to be) the Albuquerque Aquarium, which is where I saw them first. Stefan 00:14, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Booze. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.169.228.2 ( talk) 15:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
The article says that the leafy extrusions are not used for propulsion which leads to the question of how *do* they get around? I saw these fascinating critters at the Boston Aquarium last year and I saw that they get around by way of two sets of undulating translucent fins along their back that are barely visible. I am not sure of the proper terminology for this to add to the article, though. -- Danny Rathjens 05:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I just came from the Florida Aquarium in Tampa Florida, there are two leafy sea dragons there, feb 09, 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lizzya06 ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
They are small and they are a part of the sea dragon group.
They look like seaweed and have leaves on the end of their mouth that helps them slurp like a straw. The females do not give birth to the babys
the males do.
The body of this article and the one on weedy sea dragons indicates that each is a solitary member of its respective genus but is unclear about what taxon they share and whether that is a sea dragon taxon as such or they simply share similar common names. It would be nice to see a clarification of this.
Also, it's apparently rare for these creatures to reproduce in captivity, but there is now (June 2008) a "pregnant" male weedy sea dragon in a Georgia aquarium: http://wral.com/news/strange/story/3034761/
71.111.253.136 ( talk) 01:27, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved per discussion below. - GTBacchus( talk) 13:48, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Leafy sea dragon →
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Rather than the current Leafy sea dragon which is used by some sources, I suggest that the article be renamed to Leafy Seadragon, as this is the name used by more official sources such as the South Australian Government, Australian Museum, Marine Life Society of South Australia, etc. (See external links section of the article.) Cheers, Bahudhara ( talk) 04:22, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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I am doign a project on the leafy sea dragon so I was looking at this wikipedia page. as I am writing a scientific article i needed the actual base references (ie. journal articles) and Ive noticed that there is a mistake on this page. any of the references to (2) the sims webpage [1] need to be redone, as that page and article describes a different species, the weedy sea dragon. Minty737 ( talk) 02:16, 18 October 2008 (UTC) |
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