Eventually, Matsushige and the Birch team got good enough at their job to take aim at the seahorse’s cooler cousin, the sea dragon. That was in 1996 — a long time to set the mood.

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be one of the largest seadragon habitats in the world featuring an 18-foot-wide by 9-foot-tall exhibit that holds 5,375 gallons of water ...

Birch Aquarium has built what is believed to be one of the world's largest habitats for the surreal sea dragons, whose native populations off Australia are threatened by pollution, warming oceans ...

Since 1995, the Birch Aquarium has bred 13 different seahorse species, sharing more than 5,000 juvenile seahorses with other aquariums around the world. So far, only the weedy sea dragon has been bred ...

Leslee Matsushige, associate curator at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, knew that getting the aquarium’s weedy sea dragons to reproduce ...

A weedy sea dragon is seen in a screenshot from a video shared by San Diego’s Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Feb. 13, 2020. by: Associated Press Posted: Feb 13, 2020 / ...

A California aquarium hopes its new sea dragon exhibit will lead to the lesser-known cousin of the seahorse being bred in captivity for the first time. Toggle navigation.