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Researchers in Australia finally caught on camera what they were looking for: a new species of seadragon in its natural habitat.*
Footage released this week in
Marine Biodiversity Records shows the elusive "Ruby Seadragon" in the waters off Australia's remote west coast.
"I fully expected that we knew all the seadragon species that are out there, but the discovery showed us that we can still find big, charismatic, bright red fish that ** one has ever seen before," Josefin Stiller of the Scripps Institution of Ocea**graphy at the University of California San Diego, said in the video highlighting the new species. She discovered the "
Ruby Seadragon" in 2015 by analyzing the DNA of preserved specimens.
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