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.

Photo illustration of a seahorse. Meagan Abele and Clayton Manning were researching seahorses in the waters of Port Stephens, Australia when they came across a male seahorse in the process of birthing tiny seahorses. Although videos of this sort are common, none have been captured in the wild.