There be dragons—and not just on Game of Thrones.

In honor of Chinese New Year, a festival that features mythical dragons, Weird Animal Question of the Week wondered: “What are some of the most dazzling dragons in real life?”

We wear red when we want to stand out, but for the ruby seadragon, "it's a camouflaging tactic at depth,” says Josefin Stiller, who helped film the dragon for the first time recently in western Australia. (Related: "Rare Ruby Seadragon Caught on Video for the First Time.")

Because "red is the first color of the spectrum that gets filtered out," underwater, these fish appear black, helping them hide from predators, says Stiller, a graduate student at the University of California,