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 ...

In the underwater world, evolution often follows familiar rules: males compete, and females choose. But, the captivating pipefish dares to break these established rules. They are called pipefish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In the upside-down world of the pipefish, sexual selection appears to work in reverse, with flashy females battling for males who bear the pregnancy and carry their young to term in their brood pouch.