New Museum Discovery Shows Evolution Keeps Reinventing the Seahorse

CT scans and DNA revealed that Australia’s rare sea muppets only look like seahorses and actually belong to a separate evolutionary lineage. A tiny fish from southern Australia could easily be mistaken for a seahorse. Its head bends downward in the same horse-shaped profile, its tail curls tightly enough to grasp, and males carry their [...]

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