Scientists Are Trying to Save This Seahorse Paradise in the Bahamas
[Many thanks to Holly Bynoe for bringing this item to our attention.] Joshua Rapp Learn writes that researchers are rushing to save a Bahamian pond—Sweetings Pond—that is critical to the understanding of seahorse ecology and their evolution. For full article, see
The first time biologist Heather Masonjones heard about the seahorses on Eleuthera Island, she had trouble believing in a place where seahorses were as common as other fish. After 29 years studying the animals, the University of Tampa seahorse expert had never seen more than a handful together underwater in her whole career. But once she was immersed in the emerald waters of the mile-long Sweetings Pond, which sits on a narrow crescent of an island in the Bahamas, she started to believe the hype.