Seahorse

The male seahorse carries the eggs.

The locator will be towed more than 6,000 meters behind the Australian navy ship “Seahorse Standard.”

Other unusual characteristics of a seahorse are its upright stance, with its prehensile tail — which allows it to hold on to coral and other sea objects. Their tiny size, usually less than 15 centimeters, gives them a "jewel-like" appearance. And seahorses don't have the scales of typical fish; instead they have a dark, exo-skeleton of bony plates for protection and camouflage.

Seahorses are fish that don't look like, swim like, or reproduce like fish. With a head resembling that of a tiny horse, seahorses and their biological cousins, sea dragons, live in shallow tropical seas and temperate waters. One of the world's leading seahorse research laboratories, dedicated to breeding the fish, is located in the seemingly-unlikely setting of a busy inner harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. The city's National Aquarium and its nearby lab have already successfully bred 12 species of seahorses and have a new exhibit of the fish on display.

The seahorse is a unique animal.