Seahorses look and act quite unlike most other fish - for a start, swimming is not their forte. Discover the peculiar features, abilities and behaviours that make seahorses and their closest relatives ...
NOVA: Can you talk a little bit about how you got interested in seahorses and what sort of life you lead as a scientist? AV: I suppose I study seahorses for three reasons. Initially, I started ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Unlike most species, it is the male seahorses who give birth. Female seahorses impregnate the males with their eggs, and 10-25 days later, the males spew out ...
With adults only about an inch tall, the dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in U.S. waters. This dainty, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the ...
DESCRIPTION: Adults of this tiny seahorse species are only one inch tall and have a high, columnar coronet. They can be beige, yellow, green or nearly black, with variable mottling ranging from absent ...
Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons are closely related to seahorses and pipefish. Leafies are generally brown to yellow in body color with spectacular olive ...