SANParks has restocked the endangered Knysna seahorse in its educational display tank, highlighting ongoing conservation efforts and the importance of protecting this unique species.

Using brain scans of awake infants, researchers have found that the hippocampus — a seahorse-shaped region of the brain that is involved in memory — begins to encode individual experiences as ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

Seahorse species belong to the genus called Hippocampus, also the name of a part of vertebrates' brains. The anatomical hippocampus was allegedly named for its resemblance to the shape of a seahorse.

Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggest that the hippocampus helps to shape future behavior via two connected processes, known as memory composition and hippocampal replay.

A short-snouted hippocampus seahorse was spotted during a routine fisheries survey at Greenwich – the first sighting of its kind. The species, which can grow up to 15cm, are rarely found in the UK.