A 2015 study revealed that some New South Wales populations were decimated by about 90 per cent in just five years. READ MORE ...

You could be staring right at a pygmy seahorse and never know it’s there. These tiny reef dwellers are camouflage experts, blending perfectly into the coral they call home. In this episode, we take a ...

Camouflage is Mother Nature's greatest form of deception, and these animals are doing it better than any others.

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Visiting West Papua’s biodiversity hotspot of Raja Ampat after eye surgery, a traveller beholds a coral wonderland.

Forreau suspected that pygmy seahorses’ gorgonian coral colonies might yield more of the worms, she told CNN. In 2023, during an unrelated survey in southern Sukumo Bay in Kochi, ...

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.

The habitats of these seahorses have declined by up to 90 percent in some areas, ... The structures gradually accumulate algae, sponges and coral once underwater, ...

Loss of seagrass and coral reefs, along with overuse in traditional medicine and bycatch by the fishing industry, are thought to be a key cause of decline in seahorse populations. The situation is so ...

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.