Ever since I was a child, I was mesmerized the Seahorse, a beautiful, mystical and somewhat unexplainable species.

Even by fish standards, Seahorses are strange, they swim upright, not horizontally (razorfish are the only other fish that swim vertically) , they do not have scales but think skin stretches over bony plates.
They  are masters of camouflage. Almost unique among fish, a seahorse has a flexible, well-defined neck. It actually looks like a horse.

As a child, I often fantasized about riding a Seahorse cavalry through the ocean, driving off sharks and predators and cutting the nets of fishermen to free the dolphins.

The diversity of the fishes I saw in the aquarium was astonishing, the oceans really are another world. I’m not sure what Mother Nature had in mind when she created the seahorse.

All humans look more or less alike, apart from color, but looking in the four-story reef tank at the New England Aquarium Sunday, I saw hundreds of fish that looked like no other fish. It’s a wild circus down there.

They are lousy swimmers, they usually have to curl their tails around a stationary object. They have long snouts for fish, and they use them to suck up food. Their eyes can move independently of one another, like a chameleon.