Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Keeping the water clean is difficult because they produce so much waste. Seahorses are also more prone to skin infections because they don’t have scales. The seahorse, or Hippocampus ...

Some individuals have white markings, while some have dark spots. Seahorses use camouflage, changing color and skin filament patterns to blend with their environments, and they may change color ...