She has studied this species of pipefish as well as its relatives. The 52 genera of the pipefish and seahorse group encompass a range of daddy care, from tolerating glued-on eggs to providing a ...

Conservationists are working toward a plan to protect the species and the wider ecology of the estuaries it inhabits. See All Key Ideas The critically endangered estuarine pipefish is known from ...

An interesting quality of pipefish is their ability to use resources differently for broods of offspring. Males of this species have been known to not take care of offspring that come from a ...

But in some species, the sex roles are reversed and males carry the brood, as in the case of pipefish and other members of the Syngnathus family like the seahorse. In these cases, females must ...

In the underwater world, evolution often follows familiar rules: males compete, and females choose. But, the captivating ...

This is according to a study focusing on seahorse and pipefish species. And it could explain how high genetic diversity can contribute to extinction in small populations. The direction of ocean ...

Like females of many species, male pipefish are choosy about their mating partners, preferring bigger females. But in some species, females are also choosy after mating — females of some insect ...

the greater pipefish, Syngnathus acus. For the amateur, the types are fairly difficult to distinguish from one another, with all species being long, thin and bony, and the juveniles of one species ...

“Pipefish are unique because they don’t follow the usual ‘rules’ of evolution,” Tosto explains. “In most species, males compete to attract females. But with pipefish, the males carry ...