In the wild world of animal reproduction, nature has come up with some truly unexpected roles for its creatures. While we ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

“It is the male seahorse that is responsible for gestation and birth,” Hann told NBC4. “The male seahorse carries fertilized eggs in a pouch and they are expelled from this pouch at birth.

Believe it or not, when I was little you could go into almost any souvenir shop in Florida and find huge baskets filled with ...

But first, you have to give birth to 2,000 babies. Sounds painful, right? Well, if you're a male seahorse, that's part of the job. Turns out, there are lots of animal dads out there who do all the ...

Male seahorses not only become pregnant and give birth, but do so in ways that take different forms, which make them unique research subjects to understand the evolution of pregnancy, according to Dr.

Seahorse species vary vastly in appearance and size. The largest reach up to 35 centimetres in length, whereas the smallest can be just two centimetres when fully grown. Male seahorses bear the ...

The male incubates the eggs in his pouch for about 20 to 28 days, an gives birth to fully-formed seahorses.

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 ...