Seahorses, pipefish and sea dragons of the family Syngnathidae are unique among animals in that the males give birth to live young. However, it seems that the molecular and cellular development ...

Reversed sex roles: In seahorses, it is the males who carry offspring to term. The females lay their eggs into a special brood pouch on the bellies of the males where they are fertilized by the male’s ...

If there were to be a “best dad” award in the animal kingdom, seahorses would be a shoe-in. That’s because males, not females, of these peculiar fish carry their young to term. They fertilize and ...

They move like living question marks, anchoring themselves with delicate tails while their eyes swivel independently to scan the water around them. They are the only animals on Earth in which the male ...

Male seahorses have quietly rewritten one of biology’s most familiar scripts, shifting the burden of pregnancy and birth onto fathers and turning paternal care into a full‑body commitment. Their ...