Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers ...

Recently, he led the assessment of the Walea soft coral pygmy seahorse, which was listed as the first critically endangered seahorse. Walea pygmies, along with many other marine species ...

But seahorses are not strong swimmers. Instead of tail (caudal) fins, seahorses have long prehensile tails to anchor themselves by grabbing onto objects such as seagrass, seaweed and coral. They are ...

Seahorses live in sea grass beds, mangroves, or coral reefs, which can be destroyed through trawling, dredging, polluting, or even intense storms. No one knows exactly how many seahorses there are ...

A week after 26 people from China landed in Coral Gables in what authorities say was a migrant smuggling operation launched from the Bahamas, the Coast Guard reports that one of its crews stopped a ...