Certain animal species go to great lengths to care for their offspring, even risking exposure to predators to protect them.

Click on the exceptional animal dads below to find out what role they play in caring for their young. Male parenting is virtually unknown in insects, but one striking exception is the giant water bug.

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 hard work. The hardhead catfish takes parental ...

In the animal kingdom, dads don’t often stand out for their ... in shallow tropical waters around the world. The role of a seahorse father is unlike that of any other animal in the animal ...

This Father's Day, we wanted to give a shout out to some incredible parents from the animal kingdom ... start in life. Go dads! No one does fatherhood quite like the seahorse!