The Evolution of Seahorses

Sea horses are amazing animals because of many of their strange features like male pregnancy but also due to their beautifully unique body shape. However, this may be the reason why seahorses are famous but it actually makes them very bad swimmers so why did they evolve to have this unique body shape?

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Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781918/
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1168#:~:text=The%20body%20shape%20of%20seahorses,head%20and%20their%20long%20snout.&text=The%20biomechanics%20of%20prey%20capture,into%20a%20horse%2Dlike%20shape.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s002270050046
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/17/9431

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