Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Normally, female animals give birth to young — not males. But seahorses are one of the exceptions.
Seahorses, seadragons and pipefishes are small marine fishes in the family Syngnathidae that have the unusual habit of leaving the gestation of their young to the males. They do this in a uterus-like pouch — complete with a placenta! — found in their tails.
Normally, female animals give birth to young — not males. But seahorses are one of the exceptions.
Seahorses, seadragons and pipefishes are small marine fishes in the family Syngnathidae that have the unusual habit of leaving the gestation of their young to the males. They do this in a uterus-like pouch — complete with a placenta! — found in their tails.
