red to dull gray, depending on the coral to which they anchor.\nIn order to hold onto the strands of coral, the pygmies have prehensile tails, like some species of land mammals and reptiles.\n
Though their name and appearance suggest otherwise, pygmy seahorses are a species of bony fish, related to bass or salmon.\n
Because they are so small and well camouflaged, many seahorses were only discovered within the last ten years, so there is still much to learn about them.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pygmy seahorses were first discovered by a scuba diver called George Bargibant in 1969. Pygmy seahorses adopted their name because they\u2019re nearly invisible. Being a relatively new discovery, we have much still to learn, but here’s a video of unusual facts that we know so far about pygmy seahorses.\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"0","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"221613,8104,187193,201391","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"category":[2],"tags":[45,94],"topics":[279,416],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","tag-aquatic-life","tag-lists","topics-fish","topics-oceanography","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","resize-featured-image"],"acf":{"tfs_sources":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/geobeats","title":"GeoBeats","no_follow":true}],"tfs_previous_post_link":false,"tfs_next_post_link":false,"tfs_guest_author":false},"yoast_head":"
5 Unusual Facts About Pygmy Seahorses - FactstoryHub\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n