Mark Lightfoot
Leafy Sea Dragon
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The LEAFY SEA DRAGON is one of Nature's most amazing creatures - a phenomenon of Evolution. While Nature produced a perfect design for this creature to evade predators through camouflage - Evolution has not yet had enough time to provide such fragile creatures defenses from the ubiquitous environmental destruction of Man. Though now protected in it's natural range in Australia, populations have dwindled due to illegal collection, pollution, habitat destruction and the effects of climate change.
Luckily I didn't have to fly all the way to Australia to see this brilliant creature - I photographed it at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
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Leafy Sea Dragon
Follow the PHOTOGRAPHY OF MARK LIGHTFOOT
Website: www.AquaShots.CA
Facebook: AquaShots
Twitter: @AquaShotsMedia
The LEAFY SEA DRAGON is one of Nature's most amazing creatures - a phenomenon of Evolution. While Nature produced a perfect design for this creature to evade predators through camouflage - Evolution has not yet had enough time to provide such fragile creatures defenses from the ubiquitous environmental destruction of Man. Though now protected in it's natural range in Australia, populations have dwindled due to illegal collection, pollution, habitat destruction and the effects of climate change.
Luckily I didn't have to fly all the way to Australia to see this brilliant creature - I photographed it at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.
Thanks for reading and for viewing. Comment, fav, share and please check out my best photos … Mark