"The dwarf seahorse's mating ritual is fascinating," said McCawley, with the Florida FWC. It is "marked by distinct behavior changes and intensity and occurs over 3-4 days.

The dwarf seahorse is just 2.5 centimetres long, and thanks to its S-shaped body and small dorsal fin, it’s going nowhere fast. But oddly enough, it is this unusual body shape and lack of speed ...

For Immediate Release, May 3, 2012. Contact: Tierra Curry, (928) 522-3681 Nation's Smallest Seahorse Moves Toward Endangered Species Act Protection. NEW ORLEANS— In response to an April 2011 petition ...

Dwarf seahorses can’t live anywhere but in seagrass. They live only a single year. Whether we have data or not, the truth is BP probably took out most of the 2009 year-class and its 2010 year ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

But a dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) can strike even faster, within one millisecond. To succeed with its speedy strike, the seahorse somehow has to get within about a millimeter of its prey.

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 ...

“But the Dwarf Seahorses are especially tiny so I keep a sharp eye out for them.” Luckily, according to Ms. Arthur, these babies (as tiny as they are) are one of the easiest species to raise.

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 ...

Seahorses Are Stone Cold ... It seems that "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 ...

The dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in the United States, and it is the third-smallest seahorse in the world. In addition to oil pollution, the seahorse’s seagrass ...