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, ...

It is not much more than a chicken wire cage, but the nicely named "seahorse hotel" is behind a population resurgence of Australia's endangered white seahorse. One of the largest concentrations of ...

On 22 August 2017, the Facebook page "Geology Wonders" posted an image that appears to show a massive seahorse fossil exposed on a boulder with the caption "giant fossil of a seahorse." While ...

These first days of Pisces season in the Year of the Fire Horse call to mind the seahorse — one of nature's most improbable creatures. Neither fish nor horse, it lives between worlds, upright in the ...

A dwarf seahorse can sneak unnoticed remarkably close to prey — less than a penny’s thickness away — thanks to the way the horsey head shape moves through water. If they had just two or three ...

Liittschwager's response: "I want to see." "That license to stare that photographers have? I've always liked that," David Liittschwager tells NPR. "You're rarely given the permission to really, really ...