Male seahorse

Let's finish with two photos of seahorses. The top image (©Lazaro Ruda, via animals, animals, animals) shows a male seahorse giving birth. In sea horses, the male become pregnant. Their mating involves the female inserting her oviduct into the male’s brooding pouch. She does this several times for short intervals to avoid exhaustion... The eggs are fertilized and hatch in the male’s pouch. The size of the sea horse brood varies within sea horse species. Some species’ broods are as large as…

Male seahorses give birth to babies.Seahorses are the only animals in the entire animal kingdom in which the male, not the female gives birth and cares for their young! The female seahorse deposits the eggs into the male's small pouch like a kangaroo where the eggs are fertilized and where the baby seahorses grow until it is time for them to be born.

Pregnant male seahorses tend to develop embryos similarly to the way mammals do, new research shows.

According to a new explanation of seahorse shape, those distinctive S-curve bodies let them reach further than straight-bodied ancestors. Compared to tube-shaped pipefish, their closest relatives, seahorses extend their snouts an extra 30 percent. The difference is only a few millimeters, but for animals with a strike range of a centimeter or two, it’s a […]

Photographer David Liittschwager spent 12 years photographing these underwater creatures at more than 28 locations around the globe with his 500-pound studio.

Yes, you have not mistaken. The closest thing we can relate to is probably, hermaphroditic animals whose reproductive organs are normally associated with both male and female sexes. This is a common phenomenon in snails and slugs, in which both partners can act as the "female" or the "male". However, we are looking at an unusual event where the male and female counterparts bear opposite responsibilities to what it would normally be perceived as, particularly in reproduction. The female…