In shallow seas near Australia, a familiar, trunked face emerges from billowing tufts of red algae. The fish it belongs to, though, is new to science. Ghost pipefishes (Solenostomus) are so named ...

It's Mr. Snuffleupagus under the sea. The beloved Sesame Street character, or rather, its doppelganger, has been spotted Down Under. Research scientists have discovered a new species of ghost pipefish ...

Mr. Snuffleupagus makes an appearance on Good Morning America in 2014 infusny-146/INFphoto.com/Corbis The long-running, classic children’s show Sesame Street is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered the Solenostomus snuffleupagus, a tiny ghost pipefish, off the Great Barrier Reef. David Harasti Over the ...

Scientist David Harasti never had any doubt what he would name the tiny orange creature he first spotted on a diving expedition in Papua New Guinea in 2003. But it would take another two decades for ...

Learn how divers repeatedly photographed a hairy mystery fish before researchers confirmed it was a new ghost pipefish species now named after Sesame Street’s Snuffleupagus. Since the early 2000s, ...

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For over two decades, a strange little marine creature puzzled biologist David Harasti. While diving off Papua New Guinea in the early 2000s, he noticed what looked like a scrap of drifting red algae.

Over twenty years ago, David Harasti, a marine scientist at Australia’s Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, was scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea when he saw a fish unlike any he’d ever ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Scientist David Harasti never had any doubt what he would name the tiny orange creature he first ...

Solenostomus snuffleupagus is a hairy ghost pipefish found in the Great Barrier Reef David Harasti and Sesame Street A new species of ghost pipefish resembling Sesame Street's Mr. Snuffleupagus has ...