When it comes to the mating game, sea horses and their cousins, the pipefish, couldn't be more different: Sea horses mate for life while pipefish spend their lives playing the field. But with both ...

Some of the strangest animals in the ocean are also the hardest to find. Seahorses and pipefish don’t rely on speed or ...

For almost every species on Planet Earth, the female holds the majority of the responsibility when it comes to child care. This includes pregnancy, childbirth, and looking after the young until they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the underwater world, evolution often follows familiar rules: males compete, and females choose. But, the captivating pipefish ...

If you could take a seahorse and stretch it like a piece of taffy, you might end up with something like a bay pipefish – an odd inhabitant of local bays and estuaries whose presence can signal a ...

At almost every aquarium I have ever visited with a seahorse exhibit, the plaque in front of the tank says the same thing: in seahorses and their relatives, males, not females, carry the babies. It is ...

Everyone loves seahorses. With their trumpet-tipped snouts, gender-bending pregnant papas and tendency to dabble in monogamy, the long-necked equines of the sea have easily coiled their boxy ...

They won't be opening any presents today - no neckties or cologne for them - but bay pipefish are exemplary father figures whose paternal duties go way beyond what most dads manage to accomplish.

When a pipefish dad gets pregnant, his brood pouch delivers a surprisingly meager amount of oxygen to the embryos developing inside. Broad-nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle) swimming in 100 percent ...

Rainbow belly pipefish are captivating creatures. With their vibrant bodies, beautifully decorated sails, and graceful swimming, it’s no wonder they were once highly sought after for aquariums. Now, ...

If dad’s a dud among pipefish, mom may make it up to the kids with a shot of protein booster. Female broad-nosed pipefish enhance their eggs with extra protein when researchers doom them to an ...