Rare seahorses born at Brit aquarium; 'we're keeping our fingers crossed'

It is the male seahorse that carries and gives birth to the babies More than 120 endangered baby seahorses have been born at a Hampshire aquarium. The arrival of the short-snouted seahorses at Portsmouth's Blue Reef Aquarium is part of a nationwide captive breeding programme. There are believed to be two separate species of seahorse found in British waters - the short-snouted and the long-snouted. The short-snouted seahorse is usually found in shallow muddy waters, estuaries or inshore among seaweed. Populations have been discovered along the south coast, in the River Thames, in the Channel Islands and Ireland. 'Souvenir trade threat' Blue Reef Aquarium spokesman Robbie Robinson said: "This is the first time we have successfully bred short-snouted seahorses here and for so many to have been born is fantastic. "They are all... [read full story]