Seahorse sizes vary depending on the species. Their height ranges from the large Australian big-bellied seahorse, measuring about 11.8 inches or more in height, to a tiny pygmy seahorse ...

or the Sodwana pygmy pipehorse. Pipehorses are a “strange group of fishes” belonging “to the same broad family as seahorses, pipefishes and seadragons,” researchers said in a news release ...

Study coauthor Ai Takahata, an undergraduate student at MISE and Forreau’s lab partner, was researching the camouflage of pygmy seahorses (Hippocampus bargibanti) when she unexpectedly found ...