Unlike most species, it is the male seahorses who give birth. Female seahorses impregnate the males with their eggs, and 10-25 days later, the males spew out thousands of baby seahorses.

It was then that he made an extraordinary discovery. Seahorses are renowned for mating for life, with the male carrying the eggs. But after following three male pygmies and one female for weeks ...

Seahorses mate for life, but it’s the father that becomes “pregnant.” Seahorse fathers will carry the eggs in a special brood pouch for up to four weeks before giving birth. Depending on the ...

The Male Seahorse use pouches for birth but some species give premature birth from their mouth. Mouth brooding keep their ...

Male seahorses bear the responsibility of carrying the embryos. They have a brood pouch on the front of their bodies, and fertilised eggs are transferred there with an ovipositor. The male then ...

On its own, a baby seahorse has a lot to contend with. On average, if the population is stable, only two of the thousands of young that a pair produces will reach maturity. Life doesn't become ...

With adults only about an inch tall, the dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in U.S. waters. This dainty, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the ...

exhibit unique reproductive strategies where males carry fertilized eggs in their mouths until they hatch. This mouthbrooding behavior, seen in various fish species and some seahorses, serves to ...