White’s Seahorses Hotel in Birch Aquarium. Photo credit Jordann Tomasek. You could call them horsey hotels, or perhaps marine motels – but human-built habitats for White’s seahorses, an endangered ...

In the course of evolution, the pygmy seahorse has adapted its appearance almost perfectly to the coral on which it lives.(Image Credit: Frank Schneidewind) The most identifiable part of a seahorse is ...

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In rough, boulder-strewn waters off eastern South Africa, researchers have found a new species: a pygmy seahorse about the size of a grain of rice. The finding shocked them because all seven species ...

The country currently leads Asia in field research and citizen science participation for seahorse conservation. Read more at ...

In August 1999, conservation biologist Sara Lourie and underwater photographer Denise Tackett were diving off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, researching a tiny seahorse species called Hippocampus ...

Seahorses are one of the few vertebrates where males become pregnant and give birth to offspring. A female will deposit her eggs in the male’s brood pouch, where he fertilizes and cares for the ...

Richard K.F. Unsworth is a director of the marine conservation charity Project Seagrass and President of the World Seagrass Association. Seahorses remain an enigma. These mysterious-looking creatures ...