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Rare seahorses born at aquarium


Baby seahorse at Portsmouth's Blue Reef Aquarium

More than 120 endangered baby seahorses have been born at a Hampshire aquarium.


It is the male seahorse that carries and gives birth to the babies

There are about 34 species of seahorse in the world and virtually all of them are under threat from loss of habitat, pollution, the souvenir trade and traditional Far East medicine, which is thought to account for the deaths of more than 20 million seahorses every year.