You could be staring right at a pygmy seahorse and never know it’s there. These tiny reef dwellers are camouflage experts, blending perfectly into the coral they call home. In this episode, we take a ...

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 ...

Measuring just more than 2 cm long, the pygmy seahorse is one of the most camouflaged creatures of the ocean. Living on Pacific coral reefs, its camouflage and texture are identical to those of ...

The pygmy seahorse camouflages so well with its surroundings that it was discovered entirely by accident. While collecting pieces of gorgonian coral, an expert named Georges Bargibant realized he ...

Australian shark experts and aquariums are supporting a world-first conservation project to save the elusive leopard shark in ...

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It wasn’t until a photo was posted on Facebook in 2017 that Graham Short, of the California Academy of Sciences, recognised it as possibly being a new species. He then teamed up with Auckland ...

You'll find pygmy seahorses, manta rays, wobbegong sharks, and kaleidoscopic coral gardens-sometimes all in a single dive.

As a family of five with kids growing rapidly through their teenage years, we thought it high time to make a pact: let's take a holiday each year that is truly adventurous, memorable and worthy of ...

Pygmy seahorses, Hippocampus bargibanti, live solely on a type of coral known as a sea fan. Different coloured seahorses live on the appropriate coloured sea fan. Recent research has uncovered that ...

This propensity toward dwarf forms appears to have developed through the seahorse’s preference for a mate of around the same size. Smaller males tend to mate with smaller females and the same goes for ...