Seahorses have lost much of their fragile habitats to human activity, such a boat installations that drag anchors and cause ...

The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego just unveiled its newest artificial habitat -- the ...

Birch Aquarium has launched a "Seahorse Hotel" habitat restoration initiative to conserve the endangered White's Seahorse in ...

Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, with just three vertebrates exhibiting this behavior. The seahorse ...

In addition to direct human threats, the seahorse's habitat is also threatened. Seahorses live in sea grass beds, mangroves, or coral reefs, which can be destroyed through trawling, dredging ...

Unfortunately, this seahorse now faces numerous threats to its existence, and the best available science shows that it's in decline. Widespread loss of the species' seagrass habitat due to pollution, ...

But like other small fish, seahorse populations naturally increase and decrease. They have a patchy distribution, meaning they don't occur uniformly across a favoured habitat. The International Union ...

Given their small population sizes, low densities, preference for specific habitat types, low mobility, elaborate reproductive behaviors, high rates of juvenile mortality, and extensive prenatal care, ...