#seadragons

[macs-instantdoodles]

Hunting dragon doodle dump

[casakhelone]

WIP: "Procession of the Knights"

Sketch of a Mer-Knight from a recent art stream for Mermay🧜‍♀️

The stream's VOD will be up on Youtube at a later date, but you can still watch it on my Twitch this week.

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[cryptid-stimming]

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[Image ID: four close-up gifs of a seadragon swimming and floating in large clumps of seaweed in the ocean. In one gif white round eggs can be seen clinging to the seadragon's tail.]

[snototter]

A common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) in Botany Bay, NSW, Australia

by John Turnbull

[infestedguest]

Become the holotype for your deep-sea* dwelling species previously unknown to man with papa!

*(technically it would be more accurate to say lower-epipelagic dwelling, which is not the deep sea, but it is very deep dwelling by sea dragon standards, which is a major reason why it went undiscovered for so long, hence its relevance.)

[quiet-art-kid]

How sea dragons sea the future

As much as I love the magic explanation of sea dragons seeing the future. However, since we are not fanciful people (speak for yourself Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the third) I wonder if sea dragons don't really see the future. What if instead their senses are a lot stronger than humans, so they pick up more information, and that information is stored more efficiently. Basically they have more computing power than human brains leading to the ability to make much more vivid and accurate predictions without actually knowing the future. Kind of similar to AI.

[lanecross]

I'm happy I got to see the Weedy Seadragons (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) in the wild at Flinders Pier:)

Last year April I dived at Portsea Pier, Mornington Peninsula I missed out seeing them. I got an opportunity to come back to Melbourne and glad I got the chance to dive again, though a few degrees colder. Thanks to my friends for linking me up with divers @melbourne_uni_underwater_club 🤿

Weedy Seadragons inhabit the coastal temperate waters of Australia at kelp-covered rocky reefs. Same family as seahorses but are larger, more mobile and tend to orient at a more horizontal angle.

For the Seadragon video head over to my other socials:)

[selkies-world]

PSA that seahorses aren't the only animal where the male gives birth instead of the female - seadragons & pipefish do this too!!!!