In August 1999, conservation biologist Sara Lourie and underwater photographer Denise Tackett were diving off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, researching a tiny seahorse species called Hippocampus ...

However, to date no pygmy seahorses are considered threatened – because we simply do not know enough about them. By discovering more species, and learning more about these tiny creatures ...

The pygmy of the seas This tiny seahorse, Hippocampus satomiae, grows no bigger than a pea, with a length of just over half an inch (13.8mm) and an approximate height of 0.45ins(11.5mm).

This seahorse is only as big as a grain of rice - just imagine how tiny that is! This pygmy seahorse lives on the Lembeh Strait in Indonesia, and is no more than 2cm tall. These Pacific seahorses ...

The tiny seahorse — about 1.5 inch tall, he says, — first latched onto a piece of grass, but then got ahold of the Q-tip. “If you look at the picture, there are actually some white blobs in ...

DESCRIPTION: Adults of this tiny seahorse species are only one inch tall and have a high, columnar coronet. They can be beige, yellow, green or nearly black, with variable mottling ranging from absent ...

They dubbed the tiny seahorse Hippocampus nalu, a reference to the Olivier’s middle name. “Nalu” also translates to “here it is” in the local isiXhosa and isiZulu languages—“to show ...

An underwater snap of a tiny seahorse has some people questioning their eyesight, with its pink, knobby exterior hiding easily among the similarly textured coral. The image appears to show a light ...

A Welsh zoo has successfully bred hundreds of tiny rare seahorses. Visitors to Anglesey Sea Zoo can see some of the short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) for the first time on Saturday. The ...

Among the top 10 picks was a tiny seahorse -- or Hippocampus satomiae -- with a standard length of 13.8 mms (0.54 inches) and a height of 11.5 mms (0.45 inches). This pygmy species was found near ...

A tiny seahorse was spotted hanging onto an oyster cage off of Manhattan's westside earlier this month—a sign of spring and also just an extremely adorable addition to New York City's wildlife.

However, to date no pygmy seahorses are considered threatened - because we simply do not know enough about them. By discovering more species, and learning more about these tiny creatures ...