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 ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The one-inch long dwarf seahorse may be threatened with extinction by lingering pollution from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, loss of habitat and overzealous collectors, according ...

The government will study whether the inch-long dwarf seahorse should have federal protection.The seahorse -- the smallest of four species found in U.S. waters -- lives only in seagrass beds in the ...

We set out to catch a modern day unicorn, the dwarf seahorse, as dainty and secretive a creature as you can find anywhere on land or under the sea. Measuring an inch long when full grown, they are the ...

The dwarf seahorse, native to shallow seagrass along the Gulf of Mexico, Florida Keys and areas of the Caribbean, looks set to placed on the endangered species list, in part due to the destruction of ...

A dwarf seahorse can sneak unnoticed remarkably close to prey — less than a penny’s thickness away — thanks to the way the horsey head shape moves through water. If they had just two or three ...

NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the dwarf seahorse, a one-inch long seahorse that lives in seagrass beds in the ...

A video shared on social media showed the dwarf seahorse giving birth to seahorse fry as filmed by an animal care specialist. According to the zoo there has been a baby boom of dwarf seahorses, one of ...

A species of seahorse that's just an inch tall, the smallest in U.S. waters, appears to warrant endangered protection, the U.S. said Thursday in kicking off a year-long review process. Found in ...

Rare conjoined dwarf seahorse twins lived for more than two weeks recently at Bethune-Cookman University's Aquatic Research Laboratory. The twins, named Bethune and Cookman, were born on Aug. 1, and ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A miracle of Mother Nature was just what we needed amid a global pandemic, but when rare conjoined twin seahorse babies were born in August at the Bethune Cookman University ...

Sharks? They're pussycats in comparison. Piranhas? More like hah-hahs. Sea snakes? Call them sea fakes. According to new research from the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, the pokey ...