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, ...

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 ...

The most identifiable part of a seahorse is the long snout that gives them their name. But did you know there is a species of seahorse that evolved their snout away? The pygmy seahorse, one of the ...

White’s Seahorses Hotel in Birch Aquarium. Photo credit Jordann Tomasek. You could call them horsey hotels, or perhaps marine motels – but human-built habitats for White’s seahorses, an endangered ...

A seahorse farm in Tasmania thought it was onto a sure thing; exporting dried seahorses to the Chinese market — it turned out ...

She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine head, crowned with a five-point coronet, poked through a blanket of eel ...