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STORY: This underwater structure is not a trap… it’s a ‘seahorse hotel’… The grid – made of biodegradable metal – will provide much needed habitat for Australia’s endangered White's Seahorse. It’s a ...

Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean ...

Male seahorses have quietly rewritten one of biology’s most familiar scripts, shifting the burden of pregnancy and birth onto ...

The most identifiable part of a seahorse is the long snout that gives them their name. But did you know there is a species of seahorse that evolved their snout away? The pygmy seahorse, one of the ...

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 ...

She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine head, crowned with a five-point coronet, poked through a blanket of eel ...

In June 2025, Ecuadorian police seized a package containing almost 3,000 seahorses that were likely destined for Colombia. Most seahorses are caught in industrial and artisanal trawl nets as bycatch, ...