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 ...

Researchers from the Zoological Society of London say they filmed a specimen of the brightly colored West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiricus) off the coast of Senegal. The seahorse can be ...

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 ...