Embryonic development in the womb is a complicated process that is still puzzling today. In particular,researchers have not determined how the paternal genetic information present in the embryo are ...

Reproduction is still one of the greatest mysteries in nature. Pregnancies are usually carried out by the female sex. Only in pipefishes and seahorses males are the pregnant sex. An international team ...

Pipefishes and seahorses (Family: Syngnathidae) are each other's closest relatives, even though they don't look much alike. As their names imply, pipefishes look like straight, narrow pipes, whilst ...

Male pipefishes and their seahorse cousins are the only males that actually become pregnant and give birth, but pipefishes likely will never win any "Father of The Year" awards -- their attitude ...

Seahorses look and act quite unlike most other fish - for a start, swimming is not their forte. Discover the peculiar features, abilities and behaviours that make seahorses and their closest relatives ...

Indo-Pacific pipefishes : Red Sea to the Americas / C.E. Dawson Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...