For 40 years, a bizarre freshwater fish from the jungles of Papua New Guinea vanished from the scientific record entirely, and the story of how researchers finally tracked it down involves local ...

Everyone loves seahorses. With their trumpet-tipped snouts, gender-bending pregnant papas and tendency to dabble in monogamy, the long-necked equines of the sea have easily coiled their boxy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the underwater world, evolution often follows familiar rules: males compete, and females choose. But, the captivating pipefish ...

If you've ever watched a natural history program on TV, you've probably seen animals performing a wide variety of behaviors to get the attention of the opposite sex. BBC Earth even released an ...

“We had spent days travelling through the Lower Sepik, talking with communities and looking for information about the pipefish,” Agebido, a researcher at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology ...

The ghost pipefish's scruffy appearance probably helps it look like floating algae, allowing it to blend in with its environment. Researchers had been on the hunt for this strange creature for years a ...

For almost every species on Planet Earth, the female holds the majority of the responsibility when it comes to child care. This includes pregnancy, childbirth, and looking after the young until they ...

Over the last several decades, an unusual “slender” fish has been recorded in the deep waters of the Coral Sea, in the areas around Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Just over 40 years after its first record ...

At almost every aquarium I have ever visited with a seahorse exhibit, the plaque in front of the tank says the same thing: in seahorses and their relatives, males, not females, carry the babies. It is ...

Many aquatic species have a reputation for negligent parenting. Having cast their gametes to the currents, they abandon their offspring to their fate. However, hands-on parenting is taken to a whole ...

Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a hairy ghost pipefish found in the Great Barrier Reef David Harasti and Sesame Street A new species of ghost pipefish resembling Sesame Street's Mr. Snuffleupagus has ...