The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten, My Seahorse Muse by Darlene Williams, PhD

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DR-hbg8XL0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDWQQT5C The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten: My Seahorse Muse is the first in a series of children’s books written by Darlene Williams, PhD. This book is written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl who is dealing with the death of her grandmother. This book, while fiction, is based on a real-life adventure by the author who experienced a visit by a seahorse while standing on a sandbar. Inside of the […]

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/03/27/the-healing-real-life-adventures-of-emily-rose-garten-my-seahorse-muse-by-darlene-williams-phd/

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

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
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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

🐣🧬 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

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