Mastodawn

I am not a big fan of zoos and caged animals, nevermind aquariums, yet watching seahorses is a weird/mesmerizing experience.
#seahorses #animalia #photography #scotland
©️ Nicolas Mouart, 2026

Her Doing Mar 7

All-around very cool story and well worth the read. 💛

#Nuns & #NativeWomen from the #indigenous #Shinnecook tribe in #NewYork have started a #kelp #farm to help remove #carbon & #nitrogen / #nitrates #pollution from their #ocean waters.

After two years, there are #scallops, #clams, #SeaHorses, and other #MarineLife not seen in years, sheltering the kelp lines.

It's not just an #environmental success story, but of #friendship, #allyship, & support as well. 💪

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/shinnecock-tribe-nuns-kelp-farm-long-island-bay

#Seaweed #Kindness #Poetry

Saved by seaweed: nuns and Native women heal polluted New York waters using kelp

The sisters and a group of women from a local Indigenous tribe started a kelp farm in the hopes of cleaning up the pollution in their shared backyard

The Guardian

Art History Animalia Feb 21

For the first #FishFriday of #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse here is a pair of hippocampus-style #seahorses mingling with the more fishy looking #fish 😛
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. IV. 35, f. 18v
(Greek Physiologus), 16th c.
https://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.241.10734

TKSST / seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Feb 19

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐣🧬 Male #seahorses carry and deliver their young, but the process is even more complex than it looks. New #research indicates their brood pouch works similarly to a placenta, providing nutrients through specific genetic instructions.

When it’s time for birth, the father uses skeletal muscles to physically flush seawater through the pouch, releasing hundreds or even thousands of tiny, fully formed seahorses!

👉 Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-2000-baby-squeeze-how-male-seahorses-deliver-their-young?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=seahorse-birth

#animals #babies #biology #cute #science #underwater #nature #marinelife #parenting #evolution #ocean #tksst #video

TKSST / seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Feb 18

🐣🧬 Male #seahorses carry and deliver their young, but the process is even more complex than it looks. New #research indicates their brood pouch works similarly to a placenta, providing nutrients through specific genetic instructions.

When it’s time for birth, the father uses skeletal muscles to physically flush seawater through the pouch, releasing hundreds or even thousands of tiny, fully formed seahorses!

#animals #babies #biology #cute #science #underwater #nature #marinelife #parenting #evolution #ocean #tksst #video

Art History Animalia Feb 6

#FishFriday 🐠:
Enid Marx (UK, 1902-1998)
#Seahorses and flying #fish, n.d.
lino-cut printed in colors
37 x 49.5 cm
https://www.andersonandgarland.com/auction/lot/216-seahorses-and-flying-fish/?lot=181123#
#WomenArtists

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 1

How #male #seahorses tap into their mothering side
“#Evolution of the brooding pouch was not cut from whole cloth de novo but was built like a quilt with different patches of genes and cells that function the same way in different animals,” says Bill Cresko, an evolutionary geneticist at Univ of Oregon who was not involved in study. “It’s way cool.”
Finding helps explain how #pregnancy could have evolved more than 150 times in animals, albeit almost exclusively in females
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/male-seahorses-mothering-brood-pouch

How male seahorses tap into their mothering side

By studying the genes responsible for the seahorse’s brood pouch, researchers uncovered a new route to “motherhood.”

Science News

Charring Auh Jan 1

Long snout #seahorses blend in perfectly with their environment..

Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋Dec 28

#ScienceSunday Male seahorses give birth. Male #seahorses have a pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side of its tail. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male seahorse’s pouch. For the next 9-45 days, the male carries the eggs until they baby seahorses emerge.

a seahorse is swimming in a ta...

Art History Animalia Dec 13

#NationalDayOfTheSeahorse :
Nikolay Kalmakov (Russian, 1873-1955)
#Seahorses , 1943
watercolor over pencil on paper
25×19 cm
https://arthive.com/artists/2171~Nikolay_Kalmakov/works/505621~Sea_Horses_1943