SCIENCE IN PICS: Pygmy Seahorses

Pygmy seahorses belong to the genus Hippocampus like other seahorses, but are distinctively different from their larger counterparts, rarely reaching more than one inch in size.
SCIENCE IN PICS: Pygmy Seahorses
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/horse1.jpg" alt="A pygmy seahorse hiding in a sea fan at Misool, West Papua, in Indonesia. This may well be a new species - the Raja Ampat pygmy seahorse. (Matthew Oldfield)" title="A pygmy seahorse hiding in a sea fan at Misool, West Papua, in Indonesia. This may well be a new species - the Raja Ampat pygmy seahorse. (Matthew Oldfield)" width="590" class="size-medium wp-image-1781027"/></a>
A pygmy seahorse hiding in a sea fan at Misool, West Papua, in Indonesia. This may well be a new species - the Raja Ampat pygmy seahorse. (Matthew Oldfield)
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