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 ...

NEW ORLEANS— In response to an April 2011 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that the dwarf seahorse may warrant protection under ...

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 ...

On land, the slowest-moving animal would likely be the banana slug, which moves at the extremely leisurely pace of 0.006 ...

Seahorses have heads perfectly shaped to sneak up on copepods without alerting them, because the area just above and forward of their nostrils produces no fluid disturbance. This video shows a ...

1. The country's tiniest seahorse could be endangered, thanks to the BP oil spill in the Gulf. 2. Oh, great. An above-average hurricane season-- 16 named Atlantic storms -- is being predicted by the ...

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 ...