A video shared on social media showed the dwarf seahorse giving birth to seahorse fry as filmed by an animal care specialist. According to the zoo there has been a baby boom of dwarf seahorses, one of ...

* Smallest: baby dwarf sea horses, at a third of an inch. * Males carry the fertilized eggs of the females in a pouch in front of them, like kangaroos. Babies emerge from the father's pouch. * Sea ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two tiny snouts and a flutter of fins. The conjoined dwarf seahorse twins born at Bethune-Cookman University’s Aquatic Research Laboratory drew intense fascination. But their ...

NEW ORLEANS— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the dwarf seahorse, a one-inch long seahorse that lives in seagrass beds in the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Gulf of Mexico oil spill this year and ...