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

There are at least 40 species of seahorses known to science, living in both temperate and tropical waters around the world. Seahorse species belong to the genus called Hippocampus, also the name of a ...

With adults only about an inch tall, the dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in U.S. waters. This dainty, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the ...

DESCRIPTION: Adults of this tiny seahorse species are only one inch tall and have a high, columnar coronet. They can be beige, yellow, green or nearly black, with variable mottling ranging from absent ...

But in the early 2000s, British marine biologist Richard Smith decided to focus his PhD research on Denise’s pygmy seahorse, a species found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was then that he made an ...

Hippocampus haema, known as “Himetatsu” in Japanese, is a species of seahorse that was newly identified in 2017. They are found in the waters of Japan and South Korea, and were assessed for ...