Unlike the tails of almost all other animals, seahorse tails are more like square prisms than cylinders. Helmut Corneli/imageBROKER/Corbis Seahorse tails are peculiar appendages. Unlike those of most ...

Sporting horse-like faces, snake-like tails and fish-like gills, seahorses are a hodgepodge of features that seem borrowed from other animals. But the bony plates that give seahorse tails their square ...

Hammering and squishing 3-D printed seahorse tail segments reveals what’s so great about being square. Angled bones hitched together in a flexible string of squares create protective cages that are ...