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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has found that pipefish, close cousin to the seahorse and sea dragon, choose which of the brood survives, on the basis of the mother's attractiveness. Male pipefish carry developing ...

Male sea horses and their relatives, pipefish, are model dads, but they may favor attractive mates for better offspring survival. Male sea horses have been lauded as the gallant “Mr. Moms” of the ...

In the underwater world, evolution often follows familiar rules: males compete, and females choose. But, the captivating ...