Male seahorses have quietly rewritten one of biology’s most familiar scripts, shifting the burden of pregnancy and birth onto ...

By studying the genes responsible for the seahorse’s brood pouch, researchers uncovered a new route to “motherhood.” ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A large seahorse was found on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) said. They found him this week in an oyster gardening cage growing off ...

COLLEGE STATION – Male seahorses are nature’s real-life Mr. Moms – they take fathering to a whole new level: Pregnancy. Although it is common for male fish to play the dominant parenting role, male ...

Two researchers happen upon a very special moment in the life of a seahorse father. Fortunately for us, and science, they had their underwater video camera with them. Freelancer Michael Franco writes ...

Male seahorses are sometimes labelled nature’s best fathers, given that they form close, monogamous partnerships with a female and carry the pregnancy from shortly after fertilisation all the way to ...

The weedy seadragon’s pregnancy marks “the first successful transfer of eggs from a female seadragon to a male” at the Seadragons & Seahorses habitat at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have uncovered for the first time secrets about how male seahorses produce their young that could prove valuable in conservation efforts to save the vulnerable species.