Similarities to the womb and placenta of female mammals indicate a response to common evolutionary challenges in pregnancy.

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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 sperm. In the brood ...

“People are very intrigued by seahorses,” says Leslee Matsushige, associate curator at Birch Aquarium. And intriguing fish — signs of whimsy in the relentlessly efficient natural world — are good PR ...

Male seahorses carry the eggs and give birth, an event that most of us don't get to witness. Luckily for you, National Geographic recently shared a YouTube video that shows one seahorse giving birth ...

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.

Or perhaps, with the warmer ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, the seahorses have been moving north. He mentioned to me that he had observed this with other species like the black sea bass, ...