The Desert Museum is excited to announce the birth of Pacific Seahorse babies! There were approximately 300-400 born and they are residing off-exhibit in the Herpetology collections area. This is the FIRST seahorse birth at the Museum and they can not predict how many will survive as there tends to be a high mortality rate. The little ones are barely 1/4" long and very fragile! Welcome, aquarium babies!
Photo courtesy Camille Pons.
Photo courtesy Camille Pons.
Thanks for posting this info Dianne! Just so you know the photo was taken by our General Curator, Stephane Poulin. I heard he took hundreds of photos trying to capture these teensie seahorses. Pretty amazing to see the male seahorse on exhibit giving birth...once in a lifetime!
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