In the wild world of animal reproduction, nature has come up with some truly unexpected roles for its creatures. While we ...

But with pipefish, the males carry and protect the embryos,” said Nicole Tosto, a PhD student at the university. They found certain biological differences between male and female pipefish.

Male pregnancy evolved in these species to increase reproductive success. By shifting gestation to males, females can produce ...

Endemic to the waters off south and east Australia, leafy sea dragons are closely related to seahorses and pipefish ... like sea horses have, male sea dragons have a spongy brood patch on the ...

She is studying three of the different types of pregnancy in syngnathids, a fish family including seahorses, pipefish and seadragons as part of a project called MALEPREG. One type is when eggs are ...