British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Seahorses are adorable, tiny fish that got their name from the shape of their head and neck. Currently, there are 46 species ...

Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers ...

With adults only about an inch tall, the dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in U.S. waters. This dainty, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the ...

Discover the peculiar features, abilities and behaviours that make seahorses and their closest relatives such an intriguing group. There are at least 40 species of seahorses known to science, living ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Unlike most species, it is the male seahorses who give birth. Female seahorses impregnate the males with their eggs, and 10-25 days later, the males spew out ...

Hippocampus haema, known as “Himetatsu” in Japanese, is a species of seahorse that was newly identified in 2017. They are found in the waters of Japan and South Korea, and were assessed for ...

But in the early 2000s, British marine biologist Richard Smith decided to focus his PhD research on Denise’s pygmy seahorse, a species found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was then that he made an ...