PhD Candidate Rowan Carew discusses the declining populations of the white seahorse and the first research of its kind being ...

The White’s Seahorse was listed as endangered in 2020. According to Professor David Booth, a marine ecologist with the University of Technology, the seahorse’s habitat is being destroyed by ...

White's seahorse, also called the Sydney seahorse, is native to the Pacific waters off Australia's east coast. In recent years, populations have decreased drastically.

Small white seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) hiding in sponges. Photo by Nick Hobgood / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Imagine getting pregnant half a dozen times every summer, and giving birth to 200 babies each time. That’s the lot of the White’s Seahorse, endemic to Australia’s east coast.

He said the White's seahorse usually had a survival rate of 1 per cent, but they managed to achieve 90 per cent by setting the temperature above 23 degrees and feeding them brine shrimp.

Flash photography has no significant effect on the behaviour, movement or site persistence of the White’s seahorse. This indicates significant potential to safely use underwater photography in ...

The White's seahorse conservation breeding program was launched in the second half of 2019, with a goal to determine a successful method to restore the population.

Hippocampus whitei (White's Seahorse), is a medium-sized species that is known to live in seagrasses, including Posidonia australis. Divers have seen several during ferry wharves project dives.

Researchers have discovered a tiny new species of pygmy seahorse that inhabits the boulder-strewn coasts of Japan. 1:54 Scientists have discovered that the tiny “Japan pig” is a distinct ...