Trying to switch gears from the bleak... and am stumbling across this beauty ...
...only to find out that....
..." Females lay around 120 eggs onto the brood patch located on the underside of the males' tail. The eggs are fertilised and carried by the male for around a month before the hatchlings emerge..."
Now, that's good life design 😜 .
^^
weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)