A diver recently caught footage of a seahorse birthing hundreds of babies in the wild

In nearly all animal species, females are tasked with the responsibility of childbearing where they carry their offspring until its time to birth them. With this being said, there is a handful of species’ where the males perform this function including pipefish, leafy seadragons, and seahorses.

Male seahorses are equipped with special pouches where they will carry their offspring until they are fully developed. Female seahorses can deposit up to 1,500 eggs into these pouches during mating season. The eggs are carried by the males anywhere from 9 to 45 days before emerging from the pouch as tiny seahorse babies.