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17 Ekim 2011 Pazartesi

The best thing I've seen on the Internet today.

I do love sea horses very much and New Scientist is the best magazine in the world!
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/sea-portraits

Spotted seahorse

The common seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) is a strange hodgepodge of characters, from the top of its equine head to the tip of its prehensile tail. But its unusual appearance is as nothing compared with its unique approach to breeding: famously, in seahorses, pipefishes and sea dragons it is the male of the species that carries the pregnancy.

The female uses her ovipositor to inject eggs into a pouch on the male's belly, where they are fertilised and grow into tiny replicas of adults over the course of three to four weeks. (Source: New Scientist)