Venkatesh and his colleagues sequenced the genome of tiger tail seahorses (Hippocampus comes) and compared their traits to close relatives, like pipefish and seadragons. What they found explains m ...

But a dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) can strike even faster, within one millisecond. To succeed with its speedy strike, the seahorse somehow has to get within about a millimeter of its prey.

In addition to their fame as one of the few animals to have a male pregnancy, the genus Hippocampus has long been known as monogamous. We have a created a domesticated seahorse that doesn't die of ...

It’s a lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus), the only species of seahorse, out of nearly 50, found in the Chesapeake Bay. The lined seahorse inhabits a range from the northern point of Nova ...

A small estuary seahorse, Hippocampus kuda, drifts in the polluted waters near Sumbawa Besar, Sumbara Island, Indonesia. Photograph by Justin Hofman, SeaLegacy “It’s a photo that I wish didn ...