NORFOLK, Va. — Amy Flora raises oysters for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. When she went out to check on the cages at her Lafayette River home on Earth Day, she found more than the bubbling shellfish ...
Seahorses are some of the most extraordinary fish in the ocean, and one of their most noteworthy features is male pregnancy. According to a recent study from the University of Sydney, seahorses and ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A large seahorse was found on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) said. They found him this week in an oyster gardening cage growing off ...
Male seahorses have quietly rewritten one of biology’s most familiar scripts, shifting the burden of pregnancy and birth onto ...
Two researchers happen upon a very special moment in the life of a seahorse father. Fortunately for us, and science, they had their underwater video camera with them. Freelancer Michael Franco writes ...
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Norfolk native and Chesapeake Bay Foundation Ambassador Amy Flora discovered a pregnant male seahorse attached to her oyster cage on Earth Day. Flora raises oysters off the dock ...
Male seahorses not only become pregnant and give birth, but do so in ways that take different forms, which make them unique research subjects to understand the evolution of pregnancy, according to Dr.
HUTCHINSON ISLAND — Thanks to a pregnant male seahorse found in an Indian River Lagoon crab trap, there are now hundreds of seahorses at the Florida Oceanographic Society. That's not a typo: Female ...
Male pregnancy in seahorses may do more than reverse traditional gender roles. It could also influence the way new species form from single populations of these ancient creatures. Studies have shown ...
We have native seahorses here in Hawai‘i, but they are quite rare. But in other Pacific islands, like the Philippines, they are super common. I always wondered why, but after learning how they mate ...
The stingrays — which arrived in December 2023 — are among roughly 150 species in the district's marine biology lab. Another ...