Personal ads for seahorses?

Posted by Rill in News on September 7, 2009 | No Comments Thanks for coming back! I appreciate it.A clever advertising campaign for the seahorse exhibition at Monterey Bay Aquarium highlights the extremely unusual breeding habits of seahorses. To promote The Secret Lives of Seahorses the aquarium has run a series of mock personal ads for each of the fish featured in the exhibition. Each fish's name plays on its scientific name and gives clues about the seahorse's life: Eartha Excises sums up her Political Views as "Men should not only be pregnant, but should clean my house". Ken Kuda lists his Interests as "Hanging around, eating brine shrimp, dancing." You...

Subscribe to updates by email!

Posted by Rill in News on July 9, 2009 | No Comments I have now added a Feedburner email subscription option to the website! What does this mean? You can now receive website updates via email. You no longer have to keep checking back to see if there's something new on the website - you'll be sent an email instead. Simply type your email address into the box on the right (underneath the heading "get seahorse email updates") and press the "Subscribe" button. A  pop-up window will open asking you to type in some text to make sure it's an actual human being subscribing to the updates and not a spamming exercise.  Type in the text and hit the "Complete...

Great Seahorse Dog Toy!

Posted by Rill in News on June 26, 2009 | No Comments When my puppy Farfl went into the vet's today to have her stitches removed following her spay, she was whimpering and crying with nerves. She did not enjoy her previous visit at all! I felt guilty so I looked for a toy to buy her as a kind of consolation prize for having to go back there so soon. I couldn't believe it when I found a seahorse - perfect! It's from a great company called West Paw Design - they create dog and cat toys from recycled materials. The seahorse is made from recycled plastic bottles - it's fleece material. The toy is very soft and durable and wasn't significantly more expensive...

Seahorse Evolution Breakthrough

Posted by Rill in News on June 10, 2009 | No Comments A paper published last month in Biology Letters uses the pygmy pipehorse to explain how seahorses evolved. Two Australian researchers - a marine biologist from Macquarie University in Sydney and a biological oceanographer from Flinders University in Adelaide - have used DNA testing to explain one of the mysteries of seahorse evolution: when and why did they start swimming upright? Dr. Peter Teske and Professor Luciano Beheregaray used DNA testing to find the seahorse's closest relative - the pygmy pipehorse. The pygmy pipehorse has a tail like a seahorse - built to cling on to plants instead of use to...

Welcome to The Seahorse Shop

Posted by Rill in News on May 31, 2009 | No Comments Welcome to The Seahorse Shop! We aim to bring you all the very best in seahorse information - whether you're interested in live seahorses or seahorse art, where to buy a saltwater aquarium or watching a pregnant seahorse giving birth. If you want facts about seahorses to share with your children or want to know how you can find seahorses for sale - you've come to the right place! I've been fascinated by seahorses ever since I was a child and first saw them in an aquarium in the south of England - I spent hours drawing and painting them and had a seahorse stuffed animal. I've always gravitated towards...