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.

A pair of divers who were carrying out research on seahorses were lucky enough to capture rare footage of one heavily pregnant male giving birth in the wild.