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This Male Seahorse Gives Birth to Hundreds. Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 25, 2025. In the underwater world of seahorses, it’s the males who give birth and they don’t hold back.
A male seahorse with his pouch filled with water in a mating display. Kymberlie R McGuire, CC BY. ... Male seahorses give birth, but they don’t do it the way female animals do.
The male seahorse has a specialized pouch called a brood pouch. The female deposits eggs into the male's brood pouch for fertilization. Newborn seahorses are independent and find their own food.
Seahorse fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail. But the way they give birth has even surprised scientists, write Jessica Suzanne Dudley and Camilla Whittington.
In a follow up video, May showed the male stretching and turning gently in the water, seemingly adjusting to his new load. "It was the most beautiful moment I've ever witnessed underwater," she said.
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*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Watch a male dwarf seahorse give birth to seahorse fry at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. Watch a male dwarf seahorse give birth ...