I have been thinking about Father’s Day, so in honor of all you dads out there who feel they have a tough time of it, I’m ...

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 ...

Scientists recently described the hairy ghost pipefish, Solenostomus snuffleupagus, after years of confusion around a ...

If you've ever watched a natural history program on TV, you've probably seen animals performing a wide variety of behaviors to get the attention of the opposite sex. BBC Earth even released an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is not a happy love story. By Steph Yin Pipefish, along with their cousins sea horses and sea dragons, defy convention in love and fertility. In a striking role reversal, fathers give birth ...

For most men, the thought of taking on the burden of pregnancy from their partners would seem like a nightmare, but it’s all part and parcel of seahorse life. After mating, female seahorses and ...

While originally acquired from the environment, a fraction of the microbiota is transferred from parents to offspring. The immune system shapes the microbial colonization, while commensal microbes may ...