The Most Stunning Fish in the Sea Are Actually Dragons (Kinda)
Released on 10/07/2016
(lighthearted music)
[Narrator] This right here is what happens
when a horse grows fins and moves into the ocean
and eats a crap ton of mescaline.
You're looking at the leafy seadragon,
a relative of the seahorse.
While it may not look like it,
this is indeed a kind of fish.
The lovely critter lives in the cooler waters
of southern Australia.
And though it looks dainty,
the seadragon can actually grow to a foot long.
As you might have guessed,
the leafy seadragon makes it's home in seaweed
and it's spectacularly camouflaged for it.
Here we see it dining on tiny crustaceans.
And see those fluttering bits there?
Those are it's transparent fins
which propel it around the seaweed.
Like a real dragon,
the rest of the body is made up of armor plates.
So the leafy seadragon is about as flexible
as a 100 year old human in a straight jacket
wrapped in duct tape.
And seadragons don't stop at being leafy.
This is weedy seadragon.
It shares a habitat with the leafy
but it takes a more restrained approach to it's camo.
Still, the leafy and weedy seadragons
are the most stunning fishes in the sea
and I'm not even on mescaline.
I don't think.
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