Seahorse facts
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Things you may or may not realize about seahorses:
1. They're actual fish
2. Our hippocampus is named after them
3. They swim upright
4. Which doesn't seem very efficient
5. But apparently helps them blend in with seagrass
6. Males give birth to hundreds of tiny seahorses
7. Like this baby Lined Seahorse
(Hippocampus erectus)
Of eiders and islands
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Dispatches from two weeks on a seabird nesting island off the coast of Maine.
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