SAN DIEGO -- For the first time, UC San Diego's Birch Aquarium has coaxed a female weedy sea dragon into transferring a large number of eggs to a male sea dragon who could give birth to a bounty of babies.
On Monday, aquarium staff discovered that one of its males is carrying about 100 bright pink eggs in the "brood pouch" on its tale. Many will become fully formed and born in four to six weeks.
It is an oddity of nature — and a scientific leap for the Birch, which is part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
