Males have a brood pouch for raising their young. Photos show the new species, which generally looks like a seahorse, just ...

The chick eventually develops feathers and is able to survive outside his parents’ brood pouches. Soon they’ll all return to the sea, their true home. Seahorses anchor themselves with their ...

Male seahorses bear the responsibility of carrying the embryos. They have a brood pouch on the front of their bodies, and fertilised eggs are transferred there with an ovipositor. The male then ...

Seahorses pair-bond, with partners participating in daily interactions and elaborate mating rituals before the female deposits eggs into the male’s pouch. The eggs, depending on the species, gestate ...

So how do they do it? When it comes to seahorses, males have a pocket on the front of their bodies called the brood pouch. Females drop their eggs into this pouch, where the male fertilizes them ...

Male big-belly seahorses are known as child-rearing fathers. The female lays eggs in the brood pouch on the male’s belly. He “gives birth” to the young after they have hatched inside the ...

With adults only about an inch tall, the dwarf seahorse is the smallest of the four seahorse species found in U.S. waters. This dainty, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the ...