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, ...

Seahorses belong to the genus Hippocampus, which gets its name from the Greek words for “horse” and “sea monster.” With their extreme snouts, weirdly coiled bodies and sluggish movements produced by ...

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 ...

The tail of the seahorse doesn't do it any favors when swimming, but it's also a marvel of natural engineering. The appendage allows the creature to grip objects strongly and protects its spine as ...

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 ...

Seahorses aren’t odd simply for their horselike shape. They (and their syngnathid fish kin, seadragons and pipefish) are the only vertebrates in which the males take on the burden of pregnancy. You ...