Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, ...

The weird and mysterious seahorse just got its first genetic close-up. A team of international researchers has sequenced the full genome of a tiger tail seahorse. It is the first seahorse genome to be ...

Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean ...

They look like a mix of other animals, the males give birth, and we still have much to learn about them. Now these unique fish are threatened. A pair of Western spiny seahorses (male at left) from ...

Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Seahorses are intriguing little creatures. They bob and drift in ...

COLLEGE STATION – Male seahorses are nature’s real-life Mr. Moms – they take fathering to a whole new level: Pregnancy. Although it is common for male fish to play the dominant parenting role, male ...

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 ...

Each member of the aquarium’s resident herd of seahorses has been tagged with a “necklace” of soft thread and tiny laminated pennant, part of a program to help researchers understand more about the ...

Each member of the aquarium’s resident herd of seahorses has been tagged with a “necklace” of soft thread and tiny laminated pennant, part of a program to help researchers understand more about the ...