Sea Horses - The Biomechanical Advantage of Being Shaped Like a Horse

The sea horse has an advantage over the fact that it's not facing up or facing down while it's swimming vertically. It is facing forward. Another study looked at the biomechanical advantage of having a head that was angled for hunting. We see this kind of feeding strategy in many smethods. And when it was observed in pipe fish, there was notable downward movement of the trunk,. The main section of the body, in accordance to the upward movement of the head. There is some thought that maybe the fact that we see a similarly shaped group, but that' still horizontal, diverging from our sea horses could very well be part of the reason why they're called seah

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