British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.
Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers ...
Seahorses look and act quite unlike most other fish - for a start, swimming is not their forte. Discover the peculiar features, abilities and behaviours that make seahorses and their closest relatives ...
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 ...
Seahorses are renowned for mating for life ... Smith recalls one that lives in the nostril of a crocodile fish. Another attacks the anemonefish (also known as the clownfish, featured in the ...
Place humans into the picture and the odds worsen. Because it is a slow-swimming fish, the seahorse has to rely on camouflage to escape capture. In addition, it is found in easy-to-reach coastal ...
Seahorses are renowned for mating for life ... There is the Banggai cardinal fish, found only in Indonesia, which keeps its eggs and newly hatched babies in its mouth for two weeks.