Male seahorses and pipefishes can get pregnant!
Male seahorses and pipefishes can become pregnant and give birth. As part of a project called MALEPREG, Dr. Olivia Roth from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) in Germany is studying syngnathids, a fish family including seahorses, pipefish, and seadragons, to understand the evolution of pregnancy. There are three different types of pregnancy in syngnathids. In initial forms, the eggs stick to the male body and then are...
