Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s ...

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 ...

Chloé J.L. Fourreau/Proceedings of the Royal Society B Study coauthor Ai Takahata, an undergraduate student at MISE and Forreau’s lab partner, was researching the camouflage of pygmy seahorses ...