Like seahorses and pipefish, male weedy seadragons brood their eggs and can carry between 250 and 300 at a time. Unlike seahorse males that carry the eggs within a pouch on the front of their ...

Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, with just three vertebrates exhibiting this behavior. The seahorse ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.