Unlike most species, it is the male seahorses who give birth. Female seahorses impregnate the males with their eggs, and 10-25 days later, the males spew out thousands of baby seahorses.

Seahorses are renowned for mating for life, with the male carrying the eggs ... which keeps its eggs and newly hatched babies in its mouth for two weeks. Then, there are gruesome parasites ...

The male incubates the eggs in his pouch for about 20 to 28 days, an gives birth to fully-formed seahorses.

But first, you have to give birth to 2,000 babies. 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 ...

Unlike other birds, male emperor penguins do not sit on their ... Dad keeps them safe as eggs, but baby seahorses—also called fry—are independent from birth and learn to navigate their ocean ...

It was then that he made an extraordinary discovery. Seahorses are renowned for mating for life, with the male carrying the eggs. But after following three male pygmies and one female for weeks ...