Although the seahorse has a fish's gills and fins, it has no scales. Instead it has bony plates made of flexible minerals. It resembles a horse more than a fish, but its tail can grip coral or ...

Seahorses are the only vertebrates known to exhibit true male pregnancy. (Dec. 14, 2016) ...

A male seahorse gets pregnant when his mate deposits her as-yet-unfertilized eggs into a pouch on his belly. He fertilizes them, then carries the Skip to content ...

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Although seahorses are the only fish that experience true male pregnancy, the males of two close relatives, sea dragons and pipefish, carry eggs attached to an area beneath their tails.

Seahorses mate and reproduce quite differently than most other fish in the sea. It all starts with a romantic encounter in which the male and female get close to 'dance' with one another; they do this ...

Seahorses aren’t odd simply for their horselike shape. They (and their syngnathid fish kin, seadragons and pipefish) are the only vertebrates in which the males take on the burden of pregnancy ...

Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures.But in the early 2000s, British ...