The illegal trade in wildlife is a continuing threat to global biodiversity, and marine organisms are victims in the same way as land animals. People participate in this trade because it is highly ...

There are at least 40 species of seahorses known to science, living in both temperate and tropical waters around the world. Seahorse species belong to the genus called Hippocampus, also the name of a ...

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

A Canadian-led study found nearly 300 instances of seahorse smuggling in 62 countries over a decade — and researchers say the findings highlight only part of the true scale of the illegal trade.

It's unknown just how many seahorse species exist — it's thought there are some 33 different species — but the number is decreasingImage: picture-alliance/Agencia Brazil/dpa/T. Rêgo.

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

The dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in the United States, and it is the third-smallest seahorse in the world. In addition to oil pollution, the seahorse’s seagrass ...

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, British ...

The earliest seahorse sighting in San Diego Bay was in 1857, when five specimens of a previously unknown species were collected by a survey explorer with the Army’s Topographic Bureau.

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White's seahorses, also known as New Holland seahorses, or Sydney seahorses, are native to Australia, and are one of four Australian such species, growing to around 5 inches long.

In a comparison between three seahorse species and 10 other fish that don’t have spring-feeding mechanisms, they found the seahorses could gulp water around eight times faster than would be ...