Sea dragons and seahorses are some of the most fantastical creatures that live in the ocean. These unique animals seem almost too wild to be real, but incredibly, they both are. If you’ve seen them, ...

They found that the water around the seahorse snout barely moves while the hunter approaches its victims, helping the seahorse to close in undetected. The seahorse appears to achieve this stealth ...

A seahorse stalking prey ... while the shape of its snout–a thin tube with the mouth positioned at the very end–allows it to drift through the water while creating minimal disturbance.

This snout in fact evolved through the loss of mineralised teeth that led the seahorse’s jaws to fuse into a tube-like structure with a small mouth. This unique tube is extremely efficient in ...

If the evolution of the seahorse body shape occurred as a result ... can be regarded as functionally equivalent to the elongation of the snout in course of the evolution, the latter of which ...

They reasoned that if a snout is long, only a small turn of the head isnecessary to reach prey, which are typically small crustaceans.Generally, a small turn can be made faster than a large turn ...

The seahorse’s food must be small because at the end of its aardvark-like snout is a small mouth, and it doesn’t have any teeth to bite or chew. Just as a chameleon can look in different directions at ...

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 ...

The seahorse is the latest in a growing list of ... "They have a head like a horse, a long tubular snout like an anteater, eyes that move independently like a chameleon, a brood pouch like a ...

The seahorse is one of the most unusual and fascinating fishes in the sea. It has an upright posture and a head bent at an angle. It has a strong tail that can grip objects. It also has a tube-like ...

We show that head morphology functions to create a reduced fluid deformation zone, minimizing hydrodynamic disturbance where feeding strikes occur (above the end of the snout), and permits ...