Interesting Features of Sea Horses

You may have seen sea horses on television or in books. Their unusual horse-like appearance and their wavering pattern of swimming might have attracted your attention. Did you know that, contrary to what one might suppose, these animals are very small? Sea horses, which are 4 to 30 centimeters (1,5 to 12 inches) in size, generally live among seaweed and other plants close to the shore. The bony armor of the sea horse protects it against dangers. This armor is so tough that it is virtually impossible to crush a dried sea horse using your hands.

The sea horse’s head is at a right angle to its body, something which is not seen in any other fish. Consequently, sea horses swim with their bodies upright and can move their heads up and down. However, they cannot turn their heads to the side. Now let’s think about the problems that other living creatures would suffer if they could not turn their heads to the right or to the left; they would be susceptible to all sorts of physical dangers. However, as a result of their special body features, sea horses do not experience such problems. Each eye of a sea horse can move individually and freely in all directions. That’s how sea horses see around themselves easily although they cannot turn their heads to the side.

The movements of these fish in the water are also worth consideration because they swim by means of a quite unique system. Each sea horse has a number of swim bladders. Making necessary modifications in the amount of the gas filling these bladders, a sea horse can swim upwards and downwards. If these bladders are damaged and even a minor amount of gas is lost, the sea horse sinks deep down in the sea, which means death for it. One point should be noted here: the amount of gas filling the swim bladders has been arranged exactly. Therefore any change could result in the death of the animal.

What this exact arrangement reveals to us is of great importance. If sea horses can survive only with a certain amount of gas in the bladders, then they must have possessed the current features they have today when they too first emerged. In other words, sea horses have not attained their features in time as claimed by evolutionists. They were created together with all their features and characteristics out of nothing and all at once. Like all creatures in the universe, Allah created sea horses complete and perfect.

Sea horses are merely one of the numerous marine species. The creation of such a being is another proof of Allah’s infinite power and endless knowledge.