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 giving birth to hundreds of babies. Clayton wrote about the experience saying, "It's pretty cool to be a part of something so rare, so when Meagan (my research assistant who took the footage) and I stopped filming, we high-fived and went to the surface. We were positively beaming; not because we'd captured the birth, but because we'd seen it with our very eyes."