White’s Seahorses Hotel in Birch Aquarium. Photo credit Jordann Tomasek. You could call them horsey hotels, or perhaps marine motels – but human-built habitats for White’s seahorses, an endangered ...

In the course of evolution, the pygmy seahorse has adapted its appearance almost perfectly to the coral on which it lives.(Image Credit: Frank Schneidewind) The most identifiable part of a seahorse is ...

Singapore Oceanarium has launched Animal Spotlight: Seahorses, a new guided experience focused on native seahorses and local marine biodiversity. The experience joins the oceanarium’s Animal Spotlight ...

Seahorse sizes vary depending on the species. Their height ranges from the large Australian big-bellied seahorse, measuring about 11.8 inches or more in height, to a tiny pygmy seahorse, measuring ...

Male pregnancy. A long, tube-shaped mouth with no teeth. A body covered with bony plates. These are the odd, quintessential features of seahorses, but why? Scientists dove into this question on ...

In August 1999, conservation biologist Sara Lourie and underwater photographer Denise Tackett were diving off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, researching a tiny seahorse species called Hippocampus ...

And after a years-long absence, they are back, nine strong, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center on ...

Seahorses are one of the few vertebrates where males become pregnant and give birth to offspring. A female will deposit her eggs in the male’s brood pouch, where he fertilizes and cares for the ...