With unique square-shaped tails, seahorses can bend and twist while still maintaining a resistance to crushing. How their anatomy may be a game changer for robotic engineers.

Secrets of the seahorse tail revealed Date: March 31, 2015 Source: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summary: A team of engineers and biologists reports new ...

Seahorses also have an unusual anatomy. Their bodies are covered with bony plates rather than scales, which helps protect them from predators. Their prehensile tails, ...

The exceptional anatomy of seahorses has fascinated humans since the time of Ancient Greece (for example, Poseidon's steed), but functional explanations for this unusual body shape have not ...

After successfully breeding 10 species of seahorses in 8 years, the Curator of the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography decided that it was time to put them on show. The ...

Video: Seahorse grasps object with paradoxical tail There’s more than a twist to this tail. One of the ocean’s most strangely shaped creatures is even more special than we knew.