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Article: QUICK BITS: Seahorses - Sure, they're called horses--but seahorses are really something else!(Short Story)
- Article from:
- Ranger Rick
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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YOU CAN'T RIDE THEM
Seahorses may have horse-like heads, but they're really fish. There are 32 species (kinds) of seahorses. They live in shallow, warm ocean waters where they hide among grasses, seaweeds, coral, or sponges.
SUIT OF ARMOR
A seahorse is covered by hard, thick, bumpy plates and a layer of skin. This suit of armor is so tough or prickly that many enemies, such as crabs or birds, often won't eat a seahorse.
FINE FINS
Check out the small fan-shaped fin on the seahorse's back. A seahorse swims along--usually in an upright position--by rapidly beating this fin back and forth. Two tiny fins on the seahorse's head help ...